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UF/IFAS begins research to update best management practices for key Florida crops

by Tory Moore
June 27, 2022

UF/IFAS received $8.8 million to conduct new research that will provide farmers with new and improved recommendations for fertilization of key Florida crops. The funding, approved by the Florida Legislature, will be administered by the Florida ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, Farm Management, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Best Management Practices, BMPs, Citrus, Fertilization, Grain Corn, Green Beans, Nutrient Application Rates, Nutrient Management, Potatoes, Research, Thomas Obreza, Tomatoes, UF/IFAS Research

Professor/farmer named director of Southwest Florida REC

by Brad Buck
May 18, 2022

Michael Burton spends the academic year teaching and conducting research in agronomy at Missouri State University. In the summer, he runs the family farm just outside Springfield, Missouri. You could say he practices what he preaches. “On ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Agronomy, Citrus, Director, Diseases, Entomology And Nematology, Family Farm, Farms, J. Scott Angle, Michael Burton, Missouri State University, Pests, Plant Pathology, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center

Growers can learn more about Plant Growth Regulators and Citrus at Free Webinar

by Ruth Hohl Borger
April 6, 2022

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. --- Florida citrus growers can learn more about the use of plant-growth regulators (PGRs) and how they can fight against fruit drop at an upcoming online webinar presented by the University of Florida Institute of Food and ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Citrus, Citrus Research, Citrus Research And Education Center, Fernando Alferez, Gibberellic Acid, Horticultural Sciences, Plant-growth Regulators, Tripti Vashisth, Webinar

Citrus Irrigation and Nutrient Management Workshop Planned for February 8

by Ruth Hohl Borger
January 13, 2022

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. --- Citrus growers depend on the latest information regarding the best irrigation and nutrition strategies for growing productive trees. University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers will share ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Chris Oswalt, Citrus, Citrus Research And Education Center, Citrus Trees, Davie Kadyampakeni, Irrigation, Nutrition, Soil And Water Sciences, Workshop

UF ag engineer develops smart-spray technology to help reduce fertilizer, pesticides

by Brad Buck
January 5, 2022

IMMOKALEE, Fla. --- Growers need to spray efficiently so they can apply pesticides and fertilizer only to crops – and minimize the chemicals that may contaminate natural resources. As they battle the economically devastating citrus greening ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Farm Management
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Citrus, Citrus Greening Disease, Fertilizer, Fruit, Pesticide, Smart Sprayer, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Trees, Yiannis Ampatzidis, Yield

UF Flavor Summit Returns in 2022

by Ruth Hohl Borger
December 9, 2021

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. --- After a year’s postponement because of the Covid pandemic, the University of Florida is hosting the 2022 Flavor Summit - Industry Perspectives, February 22-24, 2022. Industry professionals are invited to attend and learn ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition
Tags: Center For Smell And Taste, Citrus, Citrus Research And Education Center, Consumer Preferences, Flavor Summit Industry Perspectives, Food Science And Human Nutrition, Orlando, Yu Wang

Citrus Flower Bud Advisories Resume for 2021-22

by Ruth Hohl Borger
December 6, 2021

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. — The University of Florida will resume providing growers regular flower bud advisories as the critical time for citrus grove management begins this winter. UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences associate professor ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Asian Citrus Psyllid, Citrus, Citrus Flowering Monitor, Citrus Research, Control, Flower Bud Advisories, Horticultural Sciences, Tripti Vashisth, UF/IFAS Citrus Research And Education Center

UF research: Mesh covers protect citrus trees from psyllids that transmit greening disease

by Brad Buck
November 30, 2021

IMMOKALEE, Fla. --- About four years ago, Fernando Alferez started to test if citrus trees grown inside a protective mesh cover could be kept safe from the potential deadly Asian citrus psyllid. The psyllid, a bug the size of a pin, injects ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Asian Citrus Psyllid, Citrus, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research, Citrus Trees, Fernando Alferez, Horticultural Sciences, Individual Protective Covers, Mesh, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center

Citrus nutrition and gibberellic acid field day planned December 14

by Ruth Hohl Borger
November 29, 2021

LAKE ALFRED, FLA -- Growers can learn more about recent citrus field trials on nutrition and gibberellic acid and their impact on tree health at a field day hosted by UF/IFAS Extension Polk County, Tuesday, December 14. The field tours will ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Amit Levy, Chris Oswalt, Citrus, Citrus Research And Education Center, Field Trials, Gibberellic Acid, Hlb, Nutrition, Tree Stress, Tripti Vashisth

University of Florida citrus faculty secure federal funding in ongoing fight against citrus greening

by Ruth Hohl Borger
November 18, 2021

LAKE ALFRED, Fla -- University of Florida citrus researchers continue to provide innovative leadership in the fight against the devastating disease Huanglongbing, also known as citrus greening disease. The USDA National Institute of Food and ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: Asian Citrus Psyllid, Australian Limes, Candidatus Liberibacter Asiaticus, Citrus, Citrus Greening Disease, Citrus Research, Citrus Research And Education Center, Entomology And Nematology, Food And Resource Economics, Germplasm, Grants, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Huanglongbing, Hybrid, Individual Protective Covers, National Institute Of Food And Agriculture, Pathogen, Peptides, Plant Pathology, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, USDA-NIFA

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