Category: Crops

GCREC Bug Week 2016

by ccooley
May 23, 2016

For the past month, I have asked our staff to bring me whatever bugs they might find on our 475-acre farm. This is a very busy time for our faculty and staff, so I only received a few specimens so far, but they are beauties. There's nothing ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Events, Farm Management, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: Bagmoth, Bug Week 2016, Bugs, Dragonfly, Entomology, Gulf Coast REC, Horsefly, IFAS, Insects, Mole Crickets, Pests, UF

Bug Word of the Day: Phytophagous

by Samantha Murray
May 23, 2016

The word “phytophagous” is an adjective that means “plant-eating,” and it’s typically used to describe arthropods that feed on the tissues of living plants, but not those that consume pollen or nectar. You’ve probably also heard ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Pests & Disease, Wildlife
Tags: BugWeek, Phytophagous

Regular-sized bugs on the big screen: The Swarm

by Samantha Murray
May 20, 2016

Welcome to another installment of Bug Week’s recurring movie review feature, “Regular-Sized Bugs on the Big Screen,” where our critics examine films that feature normal-sized arthropods (i.e. not radiation-spawned behemoths) in supporting ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops
Tags: Bees, BugWeek

Regular-sized bugs on the big screen: Ulee’s gold

by Samantha Murray
May 20, 2016

Welcome to another installment of “Regular-Sized Bugs on the Big Screen,” a series of Bug Week blog posts meant to tip the Bug Week Board of Critics’ hats to arthropods that appear alongside human actors in feature films. Today, we’re ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops
Tags: BugWeek, Honey Bees

Keeping your leafy vegetables fresh at the farmers’ market

by Jose Perez
May 20, 2016

Do you struggle to keep your greens looking great at your farmers market display? With spring temperatures rising in Florida, you are not alone. Even when you harvest early in the morning of the market day, or the day before; there are some ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops
Tags: Farmers Markets, Post-harvest

UF/IFAS Chef David Bearl teams up with Bok Tower Gardens

by Samantha Murray
May 17, 2016

Forty Florida middle school students will learn to cook fresh, healthy meals with a professional chef, thanks to the partnership between University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension and Bok Tower Gardens. The ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Health & Nutrition, SFYL Hot Topic, Work & Life
Tags: Bok Tower, David Bearl, Family Hot Topic

Course cultivates relationships millions of years in the making

by Samantha Murray
May 16, 2016

Not all fungal infections are bad for plants—in fact, some of them are critical for plant survival, according University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers. The UF/IFAS Applications and Analyses of Mycorrhizal ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, Turf
Tags: Agriculture Hot Topic, Mycorrhizae

UF/IFAS short course cultivates relationships millions of years in the making

by Samantha Murray
May 16, 2016

Please see caption below story. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Not all fungal infections are bad for plants—in fact, some of them are critical for plant survival, according University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers. The ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Work & Life

UF/IFAS researcher: With sod-based rotation, profits up, risks down

by BLOGS.IFAS
May 11, 2016

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- David Wright, an agronomy professor and University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension specialist, makes it his mission to get farmers to grow more grass. This will increase profits, reduce ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research

Birdwatching on the Farm

by ccooley
April 26, 2016

We had a recent employee, Bill Dermott, who upon his departure gave me a list of all the birds he had observed at our research center over the last 6 months or so. We're talking about 80 different kinds of birds. This list consisted of the ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Tags: Alligators, Bird Watching, Florida Wild Life, Gulf Coast Research, Hawks, IFAS, Sandhill Cranes, Southern Hillsborough County, University Of Florida

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