Tag: Wheat

First graduates of UF’s plant-breeding Ph.D. use genetics to help growers boost yields, improve shelf life, more

by Brad Buck
January 21, 2026

About four years ago, a small cohort of ambitious young scientists stepped into uncharted territory as the first students in the University of Florida’s new plant breeding Ph.D. program in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, part ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Agronomy, Ali Babar, Anandi Karn, Blueberries, College Of Agricultural And Life Science, Elissar Alam, Estafania Flores, Esteban Rios, Forage, Fusarium Wilt, Graduates, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Horticultural Sciences, Jessica Chitwood-Brown, Manuel Gastelbondo, Pablo Sipowicz, Patricio Munoz, Ph.D., Plant Breeding Ph.D. Program, Samuel Ipinyomi, Strawberries, Sudip Kunwar, Tomatoes, Tropical Research And Education Center, UF/IFAS Plant Breeding, Vance Whitaker, Vanilla, Wheat, Xingbo Wu

Student experiences wheat harvest in the Pacific Northwest

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September 10, 2020

Taylor Petrusha, an environmental science student, spent her summer far from Gainesville. She had an internship that allowed her to experience what the wheat harvest is like in LaCrosse, Wash. Taylor landed the assignment through a family friend. ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Environmental Science, Internship, School Of Natural Resources And Environment, Taylor Petrusha, Wheat

Washington County Cool Season Forage Demonstration – Open 3/24/17

by BLOGS.IFAS
March 20, 2017

You are invited to come view the 2016-2017 Washington County Cool Season Forage Demonstration. The demo includes 21 forage grass varieties (Oats, Wheat, Rye, Triticale, and Ryegrass). The goal of the demo is to allow producers to observe the ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Agriculture, Forages, Grazing, Oat, Rye, Ryegrass, Triticale, Variety Trial, Wheat

2014 Row Crop Comparison Tools and Budgets

by Libbie Johnson
February 7, 2014

It’s February and time to make some real decisions about what to plant and how many acres to plant. Many factors go into determining the right fit for any producer, but the bottom line is profitability. To help producers make informed ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Corn, Cotton, Economics, Field Crops, General Agriculture, Panhandle Agriculture, Peanut, Soybeans, Wheat

UF researchers find wheat production models disagree under climate change scenarios

by BLOGS.IFAS
June 10, 2013

Click here for high-resolution version. Caption at bottom. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- University of Florida researchers have found, for the first time, that crop models predicting yields for one of the world’s most important crops begin to disagree ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: AgMIP, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Agricultural Model Intercomparison And Improvement Project, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Frank Ewert, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Jim Jones, Ken Boote, Nature Climate Change, Senthold Asseng, University Of Florida, Wheat

Wheat Management Decisions

by Ken Gioeli
January 4, 2013

We are approaching the time when several key management decisions need to be made for wheat production. Many of these decisions are made based on the growth stage of the crop. At least five scales are used worldwide to describe ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Field Crops, Panhandle Agriculture, Small Grains, Weeds, Wheat

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