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UF study taps into flourishing Florida craft beer market


January 27, 2025

In the past decade, the Florida craft beer industry has experienced explosive growth, expanding from 66 to 396 breweries – a sixfold increase. A new Ask IFAS study from UF/IFAS food and resource economics department researchers provides a ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Ask IFAS, Beer, Brewery, Consumer Engagement, Craft Beer, Customers, Demographics, Economics, Food And Resource Economics Department, FRED, IFAS, Industry, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Market, Marketing, Megan Winslow, Meri Hambaryan, Nathan Palardy, Survey, UF, UF/IFAS, University Of Florida
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UF/IFAS to share results of Hurricane Milton agricultural impacts assessment


December 17, 2024

What: UF/IFAS virtual press conference announcing preliminary results from Hurricane Milton agricultural impacts assessment. (more…) READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, AGRICULTURE, Crops, Livestock, UF/IFAS
Tags: Agricultural, Agricultural Losses, Agriculture, Christa Court, Damages, Economic Impact Analysis Program, Economics, EIAP, Growers, Hurricane, Hurricane Milton, IFAS, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Media, Megan Winslow, Press Conference, Producers, Report, Survey, UF, UF/IFAS, University Of Florida

UF finds some nematodes like hemp; first step to pest control for emerging crop


July 14, 2021

BALM, Fla. --- For two years, University of Florida scientists across the Sunshine State have studied whether hemp can serve as a viable alternative crop for Florida farmers. One of the first steps to determining the economic feasibility of ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, Pests & Disease
Tags: Cultivars, Economics, Emerging Crops, Entomology And Nematology, Greenhouse Trials, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Hemp, Host, Johan Desaeger, Nematodes, Research, Root-knot Nematodes

UF/IFAS economic report: In 2017, Florida’s combined beef, dairy cattle and allied industries generated $16.80 billion in revenues, supported 118,000 jobs


March 11, 2019

By TOM NORDLIE GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- As Florida approaches the 500-year anniversary of the introduction of cattle to her shores in 1521, a new report from the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences demonstrates just ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Livestock
Tags: Alan Hodges, Beef And Dairy Production, Cattle, Economics, Food And Resource Economics Department

UF/IFAS Bug Week focuses on “Big Money Bugs” that generate economic damages, benefits


May 19, 2016

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Call them Florida’s “Big Money Bugs” – the insects responsible for the greatest economic damages, costs and benefits that arthropods generate in the Sunshine State. This year, the University of Florida Institute ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, Invasive Species, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, WORK & LIFE
Tags: Economics, Entomology And Nematology, Insects

Local food makes up 20 percent of Florida’s eat-at-home market, UF study shows


April 1, 2013

Baskets of okra offered for sale at a farmers' market. UF/IFAS photo by Tyler L. Jones GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Floridians are buying more food grown locally or regionally and retail sales are higher here than in other states, according to a ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, WORK & LIFE
Tags: Economics, Farmers' Markets, Hodges, Irani, Local Food, PIE Center

Farmers’ market phonies raise ire of some customers — but not all, UF researchers say


September 25, 2012

Cutline at bottom. Click here for high-resolution image. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Doing business with a farmers’ market phony selling non-local food might bother some shoppers, but not all, according to a new University of Florida study. ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, Health & Nutrition, WORK & LIFE
Tags: Crops, Economics, Farmers' Market, Marketing, Mickie Swisher, Xin Zhao, Zhifeng Gao

Citrus greening costs $3.63 billion in lost revenues and 6,611 jobs, new UF study shows


January 24, 2012

Since 2006, the bacterial disease citrus greening has cost Florida’s economy an estimated $3.63 billion in lost revenues and 6,611 jobs by reducing orange juice production, according to a new study from the University of Florida’s Institute ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Invasive Species, Pests & Disease
Tags: Citrus, Economics, Greening, Hlb, Hodges, Juice, Oranges, Spreen