Category: Agriculture

Plant Propagation 101

by Tia Silvasy
January 31, 2025

Every gardener should learn the basics of plant propagation so you can make lots of plants for cheap or free. The two primary methods are starting from seed or cuttings. Planting Seeds Growing plants from seed ensures you have good genetic ... READ MORE

Category: , Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Cuttings, Florida Native Plants, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Flowers, Heirloom, Hybrid, Plant Propagation, Seed, Seeds, Vegetable
Beef calves eating supplement in a hay covered pen.

Can we decrease frequency of concentrate supplementation for young growing beef calves?

by Andrea Dunlap
January 30, 2025

By Dr. Philipe Moriel and Dr. Joao Vendramini Reducing the frequency of concentrate supplementation (for example, from daily to 3 times weekly) can be implemented to decrease feeding costs. However, this strategy may reduce forage digestion ... READ MORE

Category: Farm Management, Livestock, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Beef Cattle Supplementation, Feeding Calves, Joao Vendramini, Philipe Moriel, Range Cattle REC, Rcrec/, SFBF, SFBFP, South Florida Beef Forage Program, UF/IFAS RCREC
Pudding Sapote fruit, leaves, and flowers.

Suncoast Grown and Gathered: January Pudding Sapote

by Forest Hecker
January 30, 2025

At the Sarasota County UF/IFAS Extension Office, we've been cultivating a Food Forest to showcase the most productive, unique, and often underutilized fruits suited to our distinctive southwest Florida climate. Through this project, ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture
Tags: Eating Locally Grown, EatingLocallyGrown, FFL, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Grown And Gathered, GrownAndGathered, Pgm_HortRes, Suncoast Grown And Gathered, SuncoastGrownAndGathered

Bringing Extension Systems to Europe: The Impact of GFSI Funding and the Future of Forestry Innovation – Dr. Jiri Hulcr

by Alejandro Sanchez
January 30, 2025

The northern belt of Europe, from Brittany through Bavaria and onwards east and north is adorned with dark green spruce forest. Spruce is a fantastic commodity – growing happy on any soil, relatively fast, unbelievably straight, used for everything ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Forests, Natural Resources
Tags: Agriculture, Beetle, Extension Systems, Forestry, GFSI, Global Food Systems Institute, UF-IFAS

2024 in Review: Extension Agents Report Their Impacts

by Andra Johnson
January 28, 2025

Part 3 in a series The reports of accomplishment that Extension agents and specialists file each year tell a story of individuals, businesses, and communities that have been uplifted by the research-based education they provide, each day ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Money Matters,
Tags: Citrus Greening, Communitiy Development, Irrigation, Kalyn Waters, Luke Harlow, Mongi Zekri, Resource Management, Rural Communities, Shari Bresin

Un Vistazo a la Fruta Tropical—Carambola

by Jeff Wasielewski
January 27, 2025

por Jeff Wasielewski, Laura Vásquez y Jonathan H. Crane Nombre común: Carambola Nombre botánico: Averrhoa carambola Familia: Oxalidaceae Variedades recomendadas: Arkin, Fwang Tung, Kary, Sri Kembangan Acerca de la fruta: Cuando se corta ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, , Crops, Farm Management, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Ag, Carambola, Carambolas, Crane, Español, Fruit, Harvest, Pest, Pests, Pick, Prune, Starfruit, Star”, Vasquez, Wasielewski
Image of an alligators face and head with an orange in its mouth with houses and palm trees in the background.

Adopt-a-Tree 2025

by JK Yarborough
January 27, 2025

With 2025 already under way, why not add planting a new tree to your list? Adopt-a-Tree makes it easy. If you are not familiar with Adopt-a-Tree, here is a quick synopsis. Adopt-a-Tree events seek to give Orange County residents an opportunity ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, , Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Cflandscapes, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Healthy Living, Landscape Management, Ocextension, Orange County

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