Philippines Fulbright Scholar Finds Lady Bugs Will Control Florida Red Scale Pest Insects A Fulbright Scholar from the Philippines has found that lady beetles will attack and control the Florida red scale, a pest insect that damages the ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Research
David Calvert, a resourceful soil scientist, who was regaled as the Indian River District’s lead citrus production scientist and spearheaded pioneer investigations to evaluate the environmental interface between agriculture and soils, has ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
A native of Malawi, 25-year-old Mika Mzumara is banking skills to help African farmers increase their income with smart production and marketing. This year Mzumara will serve an internship directed by Lorenzo Rossi, a plant root biologist ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS Research
Liliana Cano, assistant professor at the University of Florida’s Indian River Research and Education Center (IRREC) in Fort Pierce, is offering a new undergraduate level course, “Survey of Plant Pathogens,” or PLP 3230. The course will ... READ MORE
Category: Crops, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Research
An agricultural engineer whose current research projects include the simulation of agricultural management impacts on water quantity and quality in the upper Floridan aquifer has joined the University of Florida’s Indian River Research and ... READ MORE
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Emilie Demard left her native France to study agricultural sustainability in Florida. She is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of Florida based at Indian River Research and Education ... READ MORE
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It all started with the Four O’clock flowers young Egem Özbudak would study as a toddler growing up in Izmir, Turkey. The bursts of velvety purple and periwinkle-colored flowers studded with long red asterisks or yellow buttons in their middles ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Horticulture, Pests & Disease
Foresight is a gift leaders use to advance organizational missions. Anita Neal has for more than two decades led the development of new programs that save money for homeowners and nursery workers as they manage plant disease and invasive insects. A ... READ MORE
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Paul LaFreniere envisions high value niche crops and fish in his plans for agricultural entrepreneurship. He says the key to sustainable food production is for growers to understand plant pathology. A Jupiter native and University of Florida ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Horticulture, Pests & Disease
While she was a graduate student at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Sasha-Kay Clarke and her adviser, Dr. Sherline Brown, were hopeful they would find a research scientist who would accept Clarke as a visiting doctoral student. ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research