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Pasco Scallop Season Disruption

by Dr. Megan Moore
May 15, 2026

2025 reopen UPDATE (9-05-2025): Pasco scallop season reopens for 2 weeks, starting September 6th, 2025. FWC has reopened and extended the recreational scallop season in Pasco County. After continuous testing, measured levels for both the ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Food Safety, Natural Resources, Recreation, UF/IFAS Extension, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Closure, Florida Sea Grant, Pasco County, Pyrodinum Bahamense, Scalloping, Scalloping Shutdown, Scallops, Shellfish, Toxin, UF-IFAS, UF/IFAS Pasco Extension Office

Gulf Coast Catch and Cook April: Spanish Mackerel

by Dr. Megan Moore
May 15, 2026

The featured Gulf catch and cook species for April 2025 is the Spanish Mackerel! Spanish Mackerel are fun to catch and delicious to eat! Spanish Mackerel can be caught along Florida’s Gulf Coast year-round, although they migrate throughout ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Natural Resources, Recreation, UF/IFAS Extension, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Catch And Cook, Fishing, Florida Sea Grant, Mackerel, Pasco County, UF-IFAS, UF/IFAS Pasco Extension Office

Bloom to Brine: Planted Oyster Gardens

by Dr. Megan Moore
May 15, 2026

Aren't plants amazing? They add beauty to any setting, bring joy to those around them, help to clean our air, and can provide a great meal! Did you know that they have a lot in common with oysters as well! Oysters are amazing animals that ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Community Volunteers, Conservation, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, Recreation, UF/IFAS Extension, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Florida Sea Grant, Oysters, Plants, Restoration, UF-IFAS, UF/IFAS Pasco Extension Office, Vog

Breeding new crops and a new generation of plant breeders

by Scott Angle
May 16, 2026

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

A culture of nomination

by Scott Angle
May 16, 2026

We’ve had an encouraging surge in new American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows in recent years. In my opinion, this is not because we’re suddenly doing fellow-level science. I believe it indicates our reputation ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Work & Life
Tags: Awards, Horticultural Sciences, Microbiology And Cell Science, Plant Pathology, School Of Forest Fisheries And Geomatics Sciences, Soil And Water Sciences, UF-IFAS, Wildlife Ecology And Conservation

Thanks for teams that keep our food safe

by Scott Angle
May 16, 2026

Last year we needed someone fluent in USDA-speak and nimble enough to juggle 26 side conversations simultaneously. Fortunately, we already employed her. Meri Nantz works in Food Science and Human Nutrition as a research administrator ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Food Safety, Natural Resources
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Food Safety, Food Science, Research, Research Administration, Thanksgiving, UF-IFAS

Leader, visionary, champion for science, friend to deliver York lecture

by Scott Angle
May 16, 2026

If you come to hear Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young deliver our York lecture next week, you’ll be inspired by someone I consider a visionary, a champion for agricultural science, a trailblazer and an anti-hunger crusader. I also consider her ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Events, Health & Nutrition, Pests & Disease
Tags: Equity, Infrastructure, Research, UF-IFAS, USDA, York Lecture

UF/IFAS is everywhere a hurricane goes

by Scott Angle
May 16, 2026

We’ve had a remarkable amount of practice helping people and places in a hurricane’s path, this time in the Big Bend and Live Oak. Jeanna Mastrodicasa again coordinated relief efforts before, during and after Idalia, this time at ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Community Volunteers, Crops, Disaster Preparation, Work & Life
Tags: Extension, Hurricanes, Idalia, Nature Coast Biological Station, UF-IFAS

An Angle on IFAS: We Feed the World. We Can Help Heal It, Too.

by Scott Angle
May 16, 2026

By hitching horticulture to health care, we can help heal the world while we feed it. Doctors alone cannot reverse the astonishing current state of affairs: Globally, we spend more treating diet-related disease than we do producing food. I ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth
Tags: An Angle On IFAS, Extension, Food Is Medicine, Horticultural Sciences, IFAS, Research, UF-IFAS

An Angle on IFAS: 4-H’s most effective advocates? 4-Hers!

by Scott Angle
May 16, 2026

On 4-H Day at the Capitol last month, 11-year-old 4-Her Reagan Casler met with Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, six state senators, 10 representatives, and the Hillsborough County district attorney. And she showed off her Gator boots to Commissioner of ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth
Tags: 4-H, Agriculture, An Angle On IFAS, Extension, IFAS, J. Scott Angle, Jay Collins, Legislature, Tallahassee, UF-IFAS, Wilton Simpson