It was, quite simply, a great budget year. Here it is by the numbers: $8.8 million for research to update our nutrient rate recommendations, probably the single-most urgent request from our agricultural producers this year. A $3.65 million ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
It’s widely believed that our Gulf Coast oyster population is declining. As scientists at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, we seek to prove it. Or disprove it. We go where the science takes us. With oysters, ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, Water
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
Andra Johnson, associate director of Penn State Extension, will be the next dean of UF/IFAS Extension and director of the Florida Cooperative Extension Service, the University of Florida announced on Tuesday. Johnson will assume the role on ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCESOnce upon a time, the Blackwater River was a conveyor belt of prosperity. Loggers floated longleaf pine trunks to the mills. But once the longleafs were all cut, the mills, landings, and structures that supported the industry were abandoned. ... READ MORE
Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Forest, NATURAL RESOURCES, Recreation, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Volunteer/Training, Water
UF/IFAS has lost one of its most devoted philanthropists as well as one its true pioneers, Vermelle “Vam” York. She passed away peacefully on Wednesday. She was the widow of UF/IFAS founder Dr. E.T. York. Over the course of their 64-year ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, Forest, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS ExtensionCongratulations to the 59 UF/IFAS faculty whose record of strong achievement has earned them tenure, permanent status and/or promotion! I am proud to work with each and every one of these leaders who consistently demonstrate across-the-board ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, EVENTS, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, WORK & LIFE
One of the VP’s main jobs is to get the resources our faculty and staff need to do theirs. I love doing this. Asking for funding is an opportunity to tell the story of the men and women of UF/IFAS making Florida and the world a better place. ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, AGRICULTURE, Invasive Species, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ExtensionIt’s no secret that the demographics of the people in the academic fields represented within UF/IFAS do not reflect those of our larger society. Reckoning with the historical roots of this is not a search for an excuse but a way to deepen ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, Blog Community, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, WaterOpportunity is a hallmark of a great land-grant university and of a UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences education. So much of that opportunity awaits outside the classroom: study abroad, a semester in politics in Tallahassee or ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS