Tag: GCREC

How It Happened: FSGA & UF/IFAS’ Game-Changing Partnership for Strawberry Industry

by IFAS Advancement
January 30, 2024

Cultivating Florida’s Strawberry Legacy In the heart of Florida’s strawberry fields, the partnership between the Florida Strawberry Growers Association (FSGA) and the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Science (UF/IFAS) ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, , Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Florida Strawberry Growers Association, GCREC, How It Happened, Research, Strawberry, UF-IFAS

El inicio de la época de máxima producción de fresas en Florida llena sus mercados con sabrosas frutas

by Luz Bahder
January 22, 2024

Creado por Brad Buck, especialista sénior en relaciones públicas de UF/IFAS. Estamos en el apogeo de la temporada de cosecha de fresas en Florida, un momento en el que los productores se esfuerzan al máximo por asegurar que los consumidores ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Asociación De Productores De Fresas De Florida, Calidad, Consumidores, Cosecha, Cultivares, Enfermedades, Español, Fitomejoramiento, Florida, Florida Brilliance, Florida Pearl, Florida Strawberry Growers Association, Fresas, GCREC, Kenneth Parker, Medallion, Mercado, Plagas, Practicas De Manejo, Productores´, Sabor, Sensation, Spanish, UF-IFAS, Vance Whitaker, Wael Elwakil

La popularidad de la cerveza artesanal sigue en aumento y un cervecero de Florida elogia la investigación de UF sobre lúpulos

by Luz Bahder
June 7, 2023

Creado por Brad Buck, sénior especialista en relaciones públicas de UF/IFAS. Lucas Frank empezó a elaborar cerveza en su casa en el 2010 y para el 2019 decidió cambiar de carrera después de trabajar en el sector de salud durante 20 años. ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Cascade, Cervecero, Cerveza, Cerveza Artesanal, Cultivado En Florida, Dia Del Lupulo, Español, GCREC, Iluminacion LED, Investigacion, Lucas Frank, Lupulo, Shinsuke Agehara, Spanish, Zhanao Deng

UF/IFAS scientist works to identify, control pest invading beans, peas, legumes grown in Florida, internationally

by Lourdes Mederos
April 21, 2023

Bean flower thrips, known by the scientific name of Megalurothrips usitatus, attacks such legumes as beans and peas. In some cases, it can wipe out an entire field of crops. In the past three years, it became established in Florida, Mexico, ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Bean Flower Thrips, Beans, Entomology And Nematology, GCREC, High Smith, Legumes, Megalurothrips Usitatus, News, Peas, Snap Beans, Thrips, UF IFAS Extension, UF-IFAS, UF/IFAS Entomology And Nematology Department, UF/IFAS Gulf Coast Research And Education Center

Food is Our Middle Name podcast: What’s the deal with…farm technology?

by Tory Moore
December 2, 2022

Technology is rapidly advancing in many different industries, but what about agricultural technology? Drones? Artificial intelligence? How does this benefit farmers and does it benefit shoppers? UF/IFAS experts Kati Migliaccio and Nathan ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Farm Management, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: #aiatuf, #FoodIsOurMiddleName, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Agricultural And Biological Engineering Department, Agriculture Technology, AI, AI In Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Center For Applied Artificial Intelligence In Agriculture, Drones, Food Is Our Middle Name, GCREC, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Plant Breeding, Podcast, Robotics, Robots, Technology, UF/IFAS Communications

Nuevo Centro de Inteligencia Artificial del GCREC fomentará la agricultura

by Luz Bahder
October 27, 2022

La agricultura es una parte integral de la economía de Florida, ya que contribuye directamente con más de $10 mil millones anuales en ingresos por ventas y provee más de 133.000 puestos de trabajo. Pero los agricultores enfrentan numerosos ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Events, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Agricultura, Centro De Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada A La Agricultura, Español, GCREC, IA, Inteligencia Artificial, J. Scott Angle, Jack Rechcigl, Robotica, Spanish

Breeding new crops and a new generation of plant breeders

by Scott Angle
January 24, 2022

The UF/IFAS team that has released more than 250 fruit, vegetable and other plant cultivars in the past decade is getting even stronger. Seven budding scientists from around the world arrived in Florida in August to work with Plant Breeders ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Curriculum, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture
Tags: Blueberries, CALS, EREC, Forages, GCREC, Lettuce, Ph.D., Plant Breeding, Small Grains, Strawberries, Tomatoes, TREC, UF-IFAS

Fungicide Assessment for Cucurbit Downy Mildew Management

by Ken Gioeli
October 28, 2021

Gary Vallad Plant Pathology Gulf Coast Research and Education Center Cucurbit production in Florida is impacted by downy mildew on an annual basis. Nearly continuous production of cucurbits occurs temporally throughout Florida, which puts ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: CDM, Commercial Vegetable Production, Craig Frey, Cucurbits, Disease Management, Downy Mildew, Extension, Fungicides, Gary Vallad, GCREC, Plant Pathology, UF-IFAS, Vegetable Production, Vegetable Research Highlights

Inspiring Future Scientists

by ccooley
March 21, 2017

There's nothing better than having a group of young students visit GCREC for a tour. Well, most groups. No offense to middle school children or their parents, but that age group is a little difficult to keep engaged. They can come up with ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Events, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Entomology, Future Scientist, GCREC, Gulf Coast Research Center, Hands On Learning, Plant Pathology, Strawberries, Student Tour Groups, Tomatoes

2015 Caladium Field Day at GCREC

by ccooley
October 8, 2015

Each fall part of our research fields are full of beautiful caladiums. Caladium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. These plants are ideal for all sorts of landscape. They thrive in shady areas and are very low maintenance. ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS
Tags: Caladiums, Environmental Horticulture, Field Day, Floriculture, GCREC, Gulf Coast Research, Lake Placid, Landscaping

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