Category: Agriculture
New UF/IFAS Blueberry Growers Guide Pesticide Module
February 6, 2023
The UF/IFAS Blueberry Breeding Program is releasing a new pesticide module on February 6, as part of its UF/IFAS Blueberry Growers Guide app. This new module is a quick reference guide for certain information on pesticides labeled for highbush ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture,Tags: App, Blueberry, Pesticides
Florida-centered Valentines Day ideas
February 3, 2023
Are you bored with the usual tired Valentine's options like boxed bonbons and odorless hothouse flowers? This year seek out some unique, Florida-centric Valentines fun! For an extravagant, supremely romantic (yet not too expensive) gift, ... READ MORE
Category: Crops, RecreationTags: Farmers Markets, Strawberries, Vanilla
National Meat Week: UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Research Explores Consumer Preferences for Specialty Goat Meat
February 3, 2023
This year, Meat Week began on January 29 and runs until February 5. To celebrate, we are highlighting some recent research from the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department focused on understanding consumer perception of goat meat as a ... READ MORE
Category: Livestock, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ResearchTags: Food And Resource Economics, Food And Resource Economics Research, Food Resource Economics
When Life Gives You Turnips…
February 2, 2023
The fall gardening season is exciting, especially because it is the time that many people begin planting after their summer break from gardening. Eventually the fall season slows to an end when mother nature provides a freeze to clear out some ... READ MORE
Category: Fruits & Vegetables, HorticultureTags: Gardening, UF, Urban Food Systems, Vegetable Gardening
UF/IFAS tests olives in Florida to determine possible commercial industry
February 2, 2023
FORT PIERCE, Fla. --- Most of the world’s olives grow in southern European countries, such as Spain and Italy. In the United States, California has more than 30,000 acres dedicated to the commodity. But Florida may be the next agricultural ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research,Tags: FAMU Partnership, Jay, Lorenzo Rossi, Olives
Cool-season Legumes
February 2, 2023
Cool-season legumes grow during the late fall and spring. During winter the warm-season perennial grasses go dormant making cool-season legume and grasses a helpful source of forage for livestock operations. Soil characteristic that are most ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Livestock, UF/IFAS Extension,Tags: Brittany Justesen, Clover, Cool Season Forages, Extension, Livestock
2023 Market Animal Show and Sale Dates
February 2, 2023
The Osceola County Fair is everyone’s favorite time of year! The Kissimmee Valley Livestock Show and Osceola County Fair is held February 10-19th. The Osceola County Fair is a great place to come out and support Osceola County 4-H and FFA ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Livestock, UF/IFAS ExtensionTags: 4-H, Extension, KVLS, Market Animal
Canning, an art from the past
February 2, 2023
In the old days, food was not as readily available as today. We've come a long way with grocery stores seemingly on every corner. It's hard to imagine how our great-grandparents and those that came before them survived without such conveniences. ... READ MORE
Category: Events, Food Safety, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Teaching,Tags: Agriculture, Gardening, Highlands County, Highlands Horticulture Digest, Hometown Gardener, Master Gardener Volunteers, Tomatoes, UF/IFAS Extension, Vegetables
Research Update: Experimental Nosema ceranae infection is associated with microbiome changes in the midguts of four species of Apis (honey bees)
February 2, 2023
Members of the UF/IFAS Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory in collaboration with researchers located at Burapha University in Thailand conducted a research project studying the effect of Nosema ceranae infection on the microbiome of ... READ MORE
Category: AgricultureTags: #ufbugs, Beekeeping, Bees, Honey Bee, Honeybee, Management Calendar, Pest, Pest Management, UF-IFAS, UFHoneyBee, UFHoneyBeeLab, UFIFASExtension