Kissimmee, FL-Osceola County Commercial vegetable and fruit grower seminar: THIS EVENT IS DELIVERED VIA LIVE VIDEO UF specialists from around the state will give updates on topics including: Disease Update from UF Plant Pathology ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Events
Rodents destroy stored feed, damage crops, infest buildings, and chew through wires, plastic pipes and irrigation lines. They can be troublesome in barns, fruit groves and packing houses. Rodents can carry diseases and parasites that can be ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Livestock, Pests & Disease, Wildlife
Eating in season in Florida can be a real treat! And this time of the year we have a variety of vegetables and fruits available at grocery stores, farmer's markets, farm stands and CSAs. According the Florida Department of Agriculture and ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Natural Resources
I visited an organic strawberry grower the other day who was worried about a rapidly expanding disease in part of her field containing the Camarosa variety. The symptoms were what you see before you: leaf spots constrained within the leaf ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture, Pests & Disease
You can pick your own peaches, blueberries and blackberries right here in Osceola County this spring. You’ll find the freshest, tastiest fruits at local farms, and you even get to meet the growers. By opening up their farms to the public, ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Events, Fruits & Vegetables
Hot air rises and cool air falls. Its kind of remarkable how much our lives as we know it depend on this, as this property of physics is one reason we have weather at all. During the winter, the thing to watch out for whenever ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture
Hot air rises and cool air falls. Its kind of remarkable how much our lives as we know it depend on this, as this property of physics is one reason we have weather at all. During the winter, the thing to watch out for whenever ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture
The UF/IFAS Hamilton County Extension Office will be hosting a peanut production meeting for interested peanut producers from Hamilton and surrounding counties on February 26, 2018 at the Extension Office in Jasper, Florida. This year the meeting ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Pests & Disease
This morning, Yakima Chief – Hopunion announced that Alpha Analytics, a popular hop testing company, will no longer be accepting samples from outside producers. This is a setback to the burgeoning Florida hops industry and the brewers who ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture
Did you know that you can grow vegetables year round in Florida? The trick is knowing that summer really isn’t a good time for most veggies. A few, like sweet potatoes and okra, do well in the summer heat, but spring and fall are our most ... READ MORE
Category: Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension