Category: Agriculture
Internship Experiences in ANS: Shelby McCubbin & Braeden Raper
September 18, 2023
Shelby McCubbin Current UF Animal Sciences (ANS) Food Animal Specialization student Shelby McCubbin interned at Marineland Dolphin Adventure in St. Augustine, Florida. During her internship, McCubbin prepared rations for 15 dolphins daily, ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Livestock, UF/IFAS ExtensionTags: Animal Sciences, Animal Sciences Internship, Animal Sciences Undergraduate, CALS, Internship
Internship Experiences in ANS: Christopher Hernandez & Taylor Clements
September 15, 2023
Christopher Hernandez Christopher Hernandez is a current UF Animal Sciences student in the Food Animal Specialization. Hernandez spent his summer internship in Pineville, Missouri, on Cobb-Bear Hollow Farm. His internship was specifically ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Livestock, UF/IFAS TeachingTags: Animal Science, Animal Sciences, Animal Sciences Internship, Internship, Undergraduate
CALS Student ‘Hunting’ for an Internship
September 15, 2023
Olivia Brown, an animal sciences undergraduate student in the UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), spent the spring semester on an internship with Glen Dene Hunting and Fishing. Based in Lake Hawea, New Zealand, Glen Dene ... READ MORE
Category: Livestock, UF/IFAS TeachingTags: Animal Sciences, Intern, VP Promise
Media Alert: UF/IFAS Plant Diagnostic Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Open House
September 14, 2023
When: Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 2 p.m. Where: The UF/IFAS Plant Diagnostic Center, University of Florida campus, 2570 Hull Road in Gainesville About: The plant doctors are in the house, and they want to invite media in to see how persistent ... READ MORE
Category: Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research![Batch of new chicks in the brooder, won't be ready for pastures for weeks. [CREDIT: UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County, Rod Greder]](https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/sarasotaco/wp-content/blogs.dir/40/files/2023/09/2023_Ag_chickBrooder_ufsaraextRodGrederCROP1338x357TINY.png)
Becoming a Farmer (Part 3 of 7): “What” Do You Want to Produce? Can you? Should You?
September 14, 2023
There are as many microorganisms in a spoonful of healthy soil as stars in the sky and neurons in the brain. Astounding facts! I'm not sure which is more mind-bending. There are almost as many different ways to farm and things to produce. KEY ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Farm ManagementTags: Ag, Agriculture, BecomingAFarmer, Business, Farm, Farm School, Grower, Pgm_Ag, Ranch, Small Farm, Small Farming
Agentes Agrícolas Apoyan la Apicultura: Recursos Digitales en Español Sobre el Manejo de Abejas.
September 14, 2023
Las abejas melíferas (“honey bees”) son de suma importancia para la agricultura. El 85% de todos los cultivos que consumimos son polinizados por las abejas melíferas. Existe mucha curiosidad por las abejas de parte del público general ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Farm Management, Livestock, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS TeachingTags: Abejas, Apicultura, Apiculture, Digitalresources, En Espanol, Español, Honeybees, Podcast, Polksmallfarms, UF-IFAS, UF/IFAS Polk County
Internship Experiences in ANS: Breanna Luby & Kyndall Capps
September 14, 2023
Breanna Luby Breanna Luby is a current UF Animal Sciences (ANS) student in the Equine Specialization. Luby completed an animal ambassador internship at ZooTampa in Tampa, Florida. Her responsibilities included conducting wildlife connection ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Livestock, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS TeachingTags: Animal Science, Animal Sciences, Animal Sciences Internship, Internship, Undergraduate
UF/IFAS is everywhere a hurricane goes
September 13, 2023
We’ve had a remarkable amount of practice helping people and places in a hurricane’s path, this time in the Big Bend and Live Oak. Jeanna Mastrodicasa again coordinated relief efforts before, during and after Idalia, this time at ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Community Volunteers, Crops, Disaster Preparation, Work & LifeTags: Extension, Hurricanes, Idalia, Nature Coast Biological Station, UF-IFAS