Category: Agribusiness

Women’s history month: Madeline Mellinger

by Scott Angle

March 15, 2023

Madeline Mellinger had only about a year of experience working with growers in the Everglades Agricultural Area when they asked her to serve as their adviser on pest management. During that year she had established their trust through consistent ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Community Volunteers, Crops, EVENTS, Farm Management, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Everglades, History, IFAS, IPM, UF

A once-in-a-generation opportunity

by Scott Angle

October 31, 2022

This is a historic moment. UF/IFAS is about to help lead a leap forward in farming. Part of how we’ll do it is by building a hub dedicated to revolutionizing agriculture. A Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture will ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Crops, UF/IFAS
Tags: Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Churchill, Gulf Coast REC, Hillborough County

Promoting the promoted

by Scott Angle

August 9, 2022

Because of Ute Albrecht, we know more about how to manage citrus greening than we did six years ago. She has worked nights, weekends, away from home and among citrus growers desperate for her to work faster. Her work is so important to ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Crops, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Citrus, Innovation, Peanuts, Promotion, Research, Tenure

Taking the cake

by Scott Angle

May 31, 2022

The idea was prompted by a bakeoff. Use the discards from one kind of food and reuse them to make a snack cake just a little healthier. It’s the kind of research project Dr. Andrew MacIntosh—Dr. Mac to students and colleagues—leads ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agribusiness, Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS
Tags: College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Food Science, J. Scott Angle, Research, Students

We need to lead to feed 10 billion

by Scott Angle

March 18, 2022

I’m more convinced than ever that UF/IFAS has to be—and is—a central player in feeding the world of 2050. After all, food is our middle name. Perhaps no one in UF/IFAS embodies our feed-the-world imperative more than Gbola Adesogan. ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Crops, EVENTS, UF/IFAS
Tags: An Angle On IFAS, Food, Research, Vam York

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

25 years later, a dream fulfilled

by Scott Angle

October 19, 2021

After 25 years, do you keep chasing a dream? Collier County Farm Bureau President Matt Stephenson-Smith does. Stephenson-Smith entered the University of Florida as a 24-year-old transfer in 1994. Decades later, he found himself still taking ... READ MORE

Category: Academics, Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Crops, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS
Tags: College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Farm Bureau

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