Ray Bodrey, UF/IFAS Gulf County Extension Director & Kalyn Waters, UF/IFAS Holmes County Extension Director A sudden, fierce attack of armyworms is currently underway on Panhandle forages. Livestock and hay producers should be on the lookout ... READ MORE
Category: AgricultureAuthor: Jose Perez, UF/IFAS Small Farms Extension Coordinator Tour a Satsuma Grove on October 11 There was a time when citrus production was booming in North Florida. In the 1920’s, Jackson County, Florida, was known as the Satsuma capital ... READ MORE
Category: AgricultureGAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A new researcher has joined the University of Florida’s fight against citrus greening, which has devastated the state’s industry. Sarah Strauss, a soil microbiologist most recently from Davis, California, has accepted ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS ResearchThe Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) is one of the most iconic figures of the Deep South. Mentioning the words Live Oak invokes all sorts of romantic nostalgia of yesteryear and the reputation is not unearned. In fact, many Live Oaks still ... READ MORE
Category: HorticultureFORT PIERCE, Fla. – An entomologist with 10 years of research focused on the state’s iconic citrus industry has joined the faculty of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences’ Indian River Research and Education ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researcher has identified two areas of the sorghum genome that could boost the plant’s resistance to the anthracnose disease. This finding could ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS ResearchBy Pedro Fontes and Cliff Lamb Researchers at the North Florida Research and Education Center have initiated a five-year experiment that focuses on the relationship between cattle breed and nutritional restriction on subsequent fetal and calf ... READ MORE
Category: AgricultureMid July is the time of year where, for most of us, we are at the mid-point in our peanut production season. The peanut plants, if not already lapped, are at a point where the canopy traps humidity and extends leaf wetness periods near the ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture
As 22 high schoolers step onto the manicured turf of Florida Field, Jason Kruse, associate professor of environmental horticulture, explains how maintaining a football field involves more than fertilizer and regular mowing. Rather, he says, ... READ MORE
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