Category: Agriculture

What’s in Season Now?

by BLOGS.IFAS
April 6, 2015

April showers bring May flowers--and your Fresh from Florida April Shopping List! Shelley Swenson is your local Family & Consumer Science Extension Agent III, UF/IFAS Wakulla County. READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Agriculture, Community, Cooking, Extension, Families & Consumers, Family And Consumer Sciences, Farming, Florida, Food, Food And Nutrition, Fresh, Fresh From Florida, Fruits, General Information, Grow, Growing, Local, Locally Grown, Produce, Shelley Swenson, Sustainable Living, Vegetables, Wakulla, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension

If you’ve wondered what winter annuals do in the real world, you’ll want to join us for the Jefferson County Cool Season Field Day on Saturday, April 11 from 10am to 1 pm at Asheville, FL. You’ll see 33 plots of oats, rye, triticale, ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Farm Management, Horticulture, Livestock
Tags: Ag, Bees, Forage, Grazing, Pasture, Wildlife

Be on the Lookout for Crapemyrtle Bark Scale!

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March 31, 2015

Crapemyrtle bark scale, Eriococcus laqerstroemia, is a new pest of crapemyrtle and is emerging as a major threat to crapemyrtles throughout Florida and the Southeast U.S. This pest was first discovered in the Dallas TX area in 2004 and in recent ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture
Tags: Insects, Ornamental Shrubs, Panhandle Gardening, Trees

New on Featured Creatures! An encyrtid parasitoid

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
March 28, 2015

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: Anagyrus pseudococci (Fig. 1) is a well-known encyrtid parasitoid capable of developing on a variety of mealybug species ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease
Tags: Beneficials, Featured Creatures, Mealybugs, Pest Alert

Tung Trees – Historic Crop; Toxic Legacy

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March 27, 2015

The highway from Monticello to Tallahassee (US 90) is famous for its summer blooming crape myrtle trees donated by nurseryman Fred Mahan. This month, there’s another historic tree flowering along that highway, as well as in other parts of ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Ag History, Invasive Species, Panhandle Agriculture

New on Featured Creatures! The sting nematode

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
March 27, 2015

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: The common name sting nematode is generally applied to nematodes in the genus Belonolaimus, particularly Belonolaimus longicaudatus ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, Turf
Tags: Featured Creatures, Nematodes, Pest Alert

UF OneWorld Event Challenges Attendees to Consider the World in 2050

by WEC
March 24, 2015

By Clare Condon By 2050, it is estimated that there will be 9.6 billion people on planet Earth. How will we sustain all of those people? How will we prevent starvation, thirst, disease, and war? How will we conserve natural resources on such ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Events, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Community Outreach, Conservation, Disease, Event, Lecture, Population Growth

Which Turf Should I Choose?

by Blake Thaxton
March 24, 2015

Some times the lawn just gets away from us. It can be completely invaded by weeds or have a devastating disease or insect pest cause total destruction. If your lawn is problem prone there are many cultural practices that can be modified to ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture
Tags: Lawn, Panhandle Gardening, Renewal, Turf

Pollen and Allergy Season: The Price We Pay for Living in a Lush Landscape

by tavandiver
March 24, 2015

It’s that time of year again, that time when your car changes color like a chameleon in order to mimic the surrounding landscape. Anything that stands still long enough will become coated with a light green to yellow dust. What is this dust ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture
Tags: Allergies, Dust, General Gardening, Native Plants, Panhandle Gardening, Pollen, Pollinators, Reproduction, Spring 2015, Trees

New Peach Cultivar Trial at the North Florida Research and Education Center

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March 20, 2015

Prunus species require the accumulation of cold winter temperatures to allow for normal bud development and budbreak in the spring. Traditional temperate zone peach and nectarine cultivars require 800 to 1200 hours of cumulative hourly temperatures ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Fruit, Horticulture, Panhandle Agriculture, Peaches

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