Tag: Southwest Florida Research and Education Center

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

UF scientists receive grant to study fumigation impacts on soil health

by Brad Buck
March 21, 2022

Soil health is an important aspect to strawberry and tomato production. Farmers often apply a type of pesticide called fumigants to the soil months before planting to manage soil health. Fumigants reduce harmful diseases such as Fusarium ... READ MORE

Category: Pests & Disease
Tags: Crops, Fusarium Wilt, Gary Vallad, Grant, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Mary Lusk, Nathan Boyd, Nitrogen, Root-knot Nematodes, Sarah Strauss, Soil And Water Sciences, Soil Health, Soil Microbes, Soil Microbiome, Soil-borne Diseases, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Strawberries, Tomatoes, USDA-NIFA

Sauces and dog food: Two success stories from the Accelerator @ Immokalee

by Brad Buck
January 27, 2022

IMMOKALEE, Fla. --- Reshma Tannassee’s sauces sell like hotcakes. She started the business on her own, and now she has 13 employees and hopes to have about 300 in a few years. With certain foods, you can’t just sell your product from ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety
Tags: Chefs, Culinary Accelerator, Dog Food, Food Safety, Immokalee, Kendra Locke, Licenses, Matt Krug, Reshma Tannassee, Sauces, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center

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 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

Read the fine print: Who owns and controls farm data?

by Brad Buck
November 23, 2021

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, data derived from farms might be more valuable than the crops growers produce. That's because farmers can make money from their data when companies use it for other purposes, says a University ... READ MORE

Category: Farm Management
Tags: Agricultultural And Biological Engineering, Agricultural Technology Firms, Albert De Vries, Animal Sciences, Contracts, Data, Farm Data, Irrigation, License, Operational Data, Ownership, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Yiannis Ampatzidis, Ziwen Yu

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

Scientists find new watermelon viruses in Florida; help available

by Brad Buck
August 23, 2021

IMMOKALEE, Fla. --- Florida watermelon growers, the most productive in the nation, face two new viruses. But finding a disease is the first step to managing it, says a University of Florida scientist who helped pinpoint the diseases. From 2017-2020, ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease
Tags: Detection, North Florida Research And Education Center, Pamela Roberts, Plant Pathology, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Virus, Watermelon

UF/IFAS scientists offer safety tips for potential dangers of drone use

by Brad Buck
August 11, 2021

Some people seem to view drones as toys, but they can be dangerous. In fact, about 1,000 people per year are injured from using drones incorrectly. To address the potential peril, two University of Florida scientists are offering ways to keep ... READ MORE

Category: Recreation
Tags: Agricultural, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Federal Aviation Administration, Recreation, Safety, Serap Gorucu, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Yiannis Ampatzidis

UF scientists use AI to try to more accurately predict citrus yield

by Brad Buck
August 10, 2021

IMMOKALEE, Fla. – University of Florida researchers are using artificial intelligence to help citrus growers better forecast their seasonal production. So far, they’ve found in a preliminary study that their technology predicts yields with ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Farm Management
Tags: #AI, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Agroview, Artificial Intelligence, Citrus, Citrus Research, Citrus Yield, Drones, Forecasting, Models, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Yiannis Ampatzidis

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