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UF/IFAS-Developed ‘Florida Brilliance’ Shines on State’s Strawberry Industry

by Brad Buck
January 15, 2019

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- For years, University of Florida scientists looked for a few characteristics in a more desirable strawberry. Among those traits was a higher yield in November and December -- the early part of the Florida season when prices ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Florida Brilliance, Growers, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Production, Strawberry, Taste, Vance Whitaker, Weather

UF Student Helps Design Corn Maze at Local Farm

by BLOGS.IFAS
October 17, 2018

By Kim Scotto PLANT CITY, Fla. – Farmers and ranchers across Florida are fighting lack of consumer education on food systems by opening their properties to the public in a practice called agritourism. Agritourism allows non-farming folks ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, EVENTS, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Corn Maze, Geomatics, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, News, School Of Forest Resources And Conservation, UF/IFAS

UF/IFAS Hopping Along With Brew Crop, Despite Root-Knot Nematode Finding

by Brad Buck
June 28, 2018

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- University of Florida scientists believe they can control some nematodes that can harm or even kill plants as they try to grow hops to help quench the ever-growing demand for craft beer. Zhanao Deng, a professor of environmental ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Craft Beer, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Hops, Johan Desaeger, Nematodes, News, Root-knot Nematodes, Shinshuke Agehara, Zhanao Deng

UF/IFAS Researchers May Use Fungi to Control Deadly Crop Disease

by Brad Buck
May 23, 2018

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A group of fungi might fight a disease that’s dangerous to tomatoes and specialty crops. University of Florida scientists hope to develop this biological strategy as they add to growers’ tools to help control Fusarium ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Agribusiness, Biological Control Agent, Fusarium Wilt, Gary Vallad, Grant, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, News, Trichoderma

UF/IFAS CALS to offer food and resource economics major in Plant City beginning January 2018

by Dana Edwards
November 6, 2017

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Nathan Cox has worked in the landscaping and lawn maintenance industry in Riverview, Florida, since high school. Six months ago, he began his own landscaping and irrigation company while finishing his associate’s degree ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: CALS, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, News, Plant City

UF scientists act as plant detectives to identify disease

by Brad Buck
October 16, 2017

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- As a University of Florida plant pathologist, Gary Vallad likes to call himself and his colleagues “sleuths of the plant world.” These detectives find out what ails plants and crops, hopefully before the disease gets ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS
Tags: Detective, Featured Hot Topic, Gary Vallad, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Lettuce, News, Pathogens, Plant Pathology, Tomatoes

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