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Observe Pesticide Safety Education Month: Essential tips for safe household pesticide use

by Meredith Bauer
February 25, 2025

February is Pesticide Safety Education Month, and it's the perfect time to brush up on how to use household pesticides safely. The first step? Always read the label. It’s packed with important info on how to use the product correctly and safely. Established ... READ MORE

Category: Home Management, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS
Tags: Brett Bultemeier, Pesticide, Pesticide Information Office, Pesticide Safety
tractor spraying pesticide

EPA issues emergency order against DCPA pesticide use

by Megan Winslow
August 8, 2024

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued an emergency order suspending all use of dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate (DCPA), a pesticide also known as Dacthal. Effective Aug. 7, DCPA may not be sold, distributed or used ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Lawn, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Agricultural, Agriculture, Brett Bultemeier, Dacthal, Dacthal Flowable Herbicide, Dacthal W-75 Herbicide, DCPA, Dimethyl Tetrachloroterephthalate, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Farm, Farming, Fetal, Florida Department Of Environmental Protection, IFAS, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Law, Megan Winslow, Operation Cleansweep, Order, Pesticide, Pesticide Information Office, Pregnant, Q&A, Regulation, Restricted-use Product, Rule, RUP, Stop Order, Suspension, Technical Chlorthal Dimethyl, Thyroid, UF, UF/IFAS, University Of Florida

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 scientists help thwart disease that can ravage the popular gerbera daisy

by Brad Buck
December 16, 2020

Gerbera daisies are popular worldwide for their wide array of brightly colored flowers. They also make great plants for the garden, and their blooms yield long-lasting cut flowers. Many newlyweds use cut gerbera flowers to decorate their wedding ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Breeding, Cut-foliage, DNA Markers, Environmental Horticulture, Floriculture, Gerbera Daisy, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Pesticide, Plant, Resistance, RNA Sequencing, Zhanao Deng

UF/IFAS findings show less need for pesticide to control strawberry pest

by Brad Buck
December 8, 2020

It’s harvest season for Florida’s $300 million-per-year strawberry season, so those who grow this fruit need help to control pests such as the tiny (up to 2-millimeters long), destructive chilli thrips. Farmers often use pesticides to ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Chilli Thrips, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Crop Damage, Entomology And Nematology, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Harvest, Integrated Pest Management, Oscar Liburd, Pesticide, Sriyanka Lahiri, Strawberries

UF flower bud advisories resume

by Brad Buck
November 24, 2020

BY RUTH BORGER 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 assistant ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Farm Management, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Asian Citrus Psyllid, Citrus Blooms, Citrus Research, Citrus Research And Education Center, Flower Bud Advisories, Grove Management, Horticultural Sciences, Pesticide, Tripti Vashisth

Pesticide license testing resumes starting May 18

by Tory Moore
May 13, 2020

Due to COVID-19, all pesticide license testing in Florida was suspended for more than six weeks. Now that the state has started to reactivate services, testing will resume at select UF/IFAS Extension offices on May 18. Not all testing locations ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Farm Management, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Florida Department Of Agriculture And Consumer Services, Pesticide, Pesticide Information Office, Pesticides, UF/IFAS Extension

COVID-19 response: UF/IFAS Extension works to bring pesticide licensing online

by Tory Moore
March 24, 2020

UF/IFAS Extension and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) are working to identify ways to provide online testing for certified pesticide applicators while in-person testing is unavailable due to COVID-19. All ... READ MORE

Category: SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: COVID19, Extension Online Learning, Florida Department Of Agriculture And Consumer Services, Pesticide, Pesticide Information Office, Pesticides

UF/IFAS study: Mite might control pest that attacks Florida’s $125 million-a-year cucumber crop

by Brad Buck
December 17, 2015

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A predatory mite might feed on a pest of cucumbers, a $125 million-a-year crop in Florida, newly published University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences research shows. This finding may help growers ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Biological Control, Entomology And Nematology, Garima Kakkar, Mid-Florida Research And Education Center, Mite, Pesticide, Thrips, Tropical Research And Education Center

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