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Jamie Ellis, director of UF/IFAS honey bee lab, wins national Excellence in Extension award

by Samantha Murray
October 12, 2020

Recognizing visionary leadership and diversity in educational programming, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Cooperative Extension, and the Association of Public and Land-grant ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Conservation, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Honey Bee Research And Extension Lab, Jamie Ellis, News, Nick Place, Nifa

UF researchers receive a multi-million grant to improve food safety in fresh produce

by Brad Buck
September 17, 2020

By RUTH BORGER LAKE ALFRED, Fla.--- Outbreaks of foodborne diseases threaten the daily lives of millions of Americans, resulting in recalls and sometimes loss of life. Providing an integrated food safety system for fresh fruits and vegetables ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS
Tags: Citrus Research And Education Center, Food Recalls, Food Safety, Food Science And Human Nutrition, Foodborne Illness, Fresh Fruit, Fresh Vegetables, Grant, Michelle Danyluk, Nifa, Usda

New NIFA-funded research to examine cover crops in organic vegetable production systems

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
September 16, 2020

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture just announced funding for a project comprising an interdisciplinary team from the University of Florida. The three-year project, “Quantifying the nitrogen cycling ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Citra, Cover Crops, Entomology And Nematology, Gabriel Maltais-Landry, Grant Project, Horticultural Sciences Department, Nematology, Nifa, Organic, Plant Science Research And Education Unit, Research, Sarah Strauss, Soil And Water Sciences, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, USDA Organic, USDA-NIFA, USDA-NIFA Organic Agriculture Research And Extension Initiative, Xin Zhao, Zane Grabau

As organic food sales soar, growers look to essential oils to suppress pests, diseases

by Brad Buck
September 15, 2020

Organic food sales topped $50 billion in the United States in 2018. Statistics from the Organic Trade Association tell part of the story of this growing market: Fruits, vegetables and other specialty crops combined to make up 36.3% of total ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Ali Sarkhosh, Diseases, Essential Oils, Fruit, Horticultural Sciences, Nifa, Organic, Pest Management, Postharvest, Tropical Research And Education Center, Usda, Vegetables

UF/IFAS faculty to use $141M in research funding to improve corn, manage citrus greening, suppress mosquito-borne diseases and more

by Brad Buck
September 2, 2020

Scientists at UF/IFAS are using this year’s allotment of $141 million in research funding to develop better sweet corn, improve cow-calf breeding, make further progress toward controlling citrus greening disease and more. Robert Gilbert, ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Animal Sciences, Citrus Greening Disease, Cow-calf, Funding, Grants, Horticultural Sciences, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Mosquitoes, Nifa, Peppers, Plant Pathology, Research, Robert Gilbert, Sweet Corn, Usda

Scientists to study crippling tomato disease to lay groundwork for prevention

by Brad Buck
July 22, 2020

A destructive disease known as bacterial spot can ruin tomatoes anywhere it strikes. That's why University of Florida scientists want to understand how the pathogen that causes the disease spreads and evolves on farms. A couple of quick statistics ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Bacterial Spot, Economy, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Eric Goss, Garry Vallad, Grant, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Jeffrey Jones, Mathews Paret, National Institute Of Food And Agriculture, Nifa, North Florida Research And Education Center, Pathogen, Plant Pathology, Tomatoes

UF Professor Awarded USDA National Early Career Teaching Award in the Food and Agricultural Sciences

by Dana Edwards
December 2, 2019

When Kayli Sieber sat down for a lecture on the history of taxonomy and categorization of insects, she expected a repetition of previous history-based lectures. But when the University of Florida senior biology student heard her teacher Andrea ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Andrea Lucky, CALS, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Entomology And Nematology, Nifa

UF/IFAS Leads Multistate Research to Reduce Pepper Diseases; Boost Production

by Brad Buck
October 30, 2019

IMMOKALEE, Fla. --- Peppers are popular. Consumers eat all kinds, including jalapenos, habaneros, chilis and more. Because people eat so much of the fruit, they’re worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the Florida and national economies. In ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Pests & Disease
Tags: Diseases, Grant, Nifa, Pam Roberts, Pepper, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center

National Leader Visits UF, Praises UF/IFAS Agriculture and Natural Resources Program

by Tom Nordlie
April 3, 2019

In another clear indication of the University of Florida's rise toward preeminence, a top federal research official said this week that the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) has earned a reputation as one of the nation's ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, NATURAL RESOURCES, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Citrus Research, Honey Bee Research And Extension Lab, J. Scott Angle, News, Nifa

USDA-NIFA Honors UF/IFAS Faculty with Prestigious Teaching Awards

by Dana Edwards
November 19, 2018

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Two faculty members with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences received Excellence in Teaching awards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Environmental Horticulture, Fort Lauderdale Research And Education Center, Microbiology And Cell Science, News, Nifa

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