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A glass of OJ may soon come from citrus-greening tolerant fruit

by Brad Buck
February 13, 2018

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Some people like to wake up and drink a glass of fresh Florida orange juice. With the greening disease ravaging Florida’s citrus industry, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Citrus, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research And Education Center, Food Science And Human Nutrition, News

Solutions to citrus greening top 10 2017 UF/IFAS stories

by BLOGS.IFAS
December 20, 2017

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – From lobsters to oranges, the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences embraced stories of resilience and change during 2017. The top 10 stories for UF/IFAS during 2017 include finding ways to ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, NATURAL RESOURCES, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Beaks, Beetle, Citrus, IFAS, News, Plants, Top 10

Florida citrus growers: 80 percent of trees infected by greening

by Brad Buck
April 18, 2016

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Florida’s citrus growers say as much as 90 percent of their acreage and 80 percent of their trees are infected by the deadly greening disease, which is making a huge dent in the state’s $10.7 billion citrus industry, ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Citrus, Citrus Research And Education Center, Food And Resource Economics, Greening, Survey

Father-daughter duo team up for citrus research

by BLOGS.IFAS
December 23, 2015

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. --- When Jude Grosser’s daughter, Melinda, was in elementary school, he would often take her to his laboratory at the University of Florida’s Citrus Research and Education Center, where he works as a researcher on citrus ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, WORK & LIFE
Tags: Citrus, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Jude Grosser, Melinda Grosser, University Of Florida

Florida’s agriculture-related employment up 8.7 percent

by Brad Buck
September 10, 2015

Please see caption below GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- About 1.52 million people worked full- or part-time in Florida’s agriculture, natural resources and food industries in 2013, an 8.7 percent increase in jobs over 2012, according to a new UF/IFAS ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Money Matters, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, WORK & LIFE
Tags: Alan Hodges, Citrus, Food And Resource Economics, Forestry

UF researchers develop machine to count dropped citrus, identify problem areas in groves

by BLOGS.IFAS
August 12, 2015

As citrus greening continues to impact Florida’s groves, growers have found that they need a way to quickly and accurately count the amount of fruit dropped early to help identify problem areas, which will save time and money. University ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS
Tags: Citrus, Citrus Greening, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, University Of Florida

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