Regional Specialized Extension Agent Liz Felter has been awarded the 2024 Gene A. Batson Award by the Florida Nursery, Growers, and Landscape Association (FNGLA) Action Chapter. As the chapter’s highest honor, this award recognizes members ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS Extension
Mid-Florida Research and Education Center (MREC) environmental horticulture doctoral student Yuvraj Khamare placed third in the Charlie Parkerson Student Paper competition sponsored by the International Plant Propagators Society. As part ... READ MORE
Category: AGRICULTURE, Horticulture, Turf, UF/IFAS Research
Recently, Mid-Florida Research and Education Center graduate student and biological scientist Mengzi Zhang was awarded a Certificate of Outstanding Merit from the UF College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the UF International Center. Zhang, ... READ MORE
Category: Horticulture
MREC graduate student Yuvraj Khamare won the Florida Weed Science Society's Research Paper competition for his publication, Substrate stratification and fertilizer placement as a weed management tool in container nursery production. Khamare, ... READ MORE
Category: Horticulture, UF/IFAS Research
Recently published research co-authored by UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department associate professor Hayk Khachatryan and postdoctoral researcher Xuan Wei, along with University of Tennessee Agricultural and Resource Economics Department ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, UF/IFAS Research
Dr. Liz Felter, the food systems and ornamental horticulture regional specialized agent for UF/IFAS Extension's central district, has been awarded the UF/IFAS Extension Mentor of the Year by UF/IFAS Extension at the Extension Professional Association ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS Extension
Brian Pearson, assistant professor of landscape, ornamental and protected crop management in the department of environmental horticulture at the Mid-Florida Research and Education Center (MREC), won the North American Colleges and Teachers of ... READ MORE
Category: Horticulture, UF/IFAS Teaching
Mid-Florida Research and Education Center (MREC) graduate student Yuvraj Khamare participated in the College of Agricultural and Life Science’s (CALS) Accelerate to Industry (A2i) graduate student competition, winning a scholarship for his ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS Teaching
Mid-Florida Research and Education Center student Yuvraj Khamare was recently awarded third place in the International Plant Propagators Society (IPPS) Southern Region Charlie Parkerson Student Research Competition at the 2019 IPPS Southern ... READ MORE
Category: Horticulture, Professional Development
An interactive educational video to help pesticide license holders in the horticulture industry earn 1 Continuing Education Unit in the Core category will soon be online thanks to an Extension Entrepreneurial Team Award from the University of ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS Extension