Tag: specialty crops

With more than 100 Field Days annually, UF/IFAS empowers growers with valuable insights to enhance their operations

by Brad Buck
December 10, 2024

Billie Rooney and her husband, Scott, run a 40-acre farm near Live Oak, where they grow blueberries, blackberries and sunflowers and raise livestock. Farming is a second career for the Rooneys. So, they had a lot to learn. She and hundreds ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, UF/IFAS
Tags: Billie Rooney, Bob Hochmuth, Brent Sellers, Brett Bultemeier, Cattle, Citrus, Citrus Handbook, Crops, EPA, Field Days, Florida Farm Bureau, Forage, Kim Jones, Learning, Mike Adams, North Florida Research And Education Center-Suwannee Valley, Pesticide Information Office, Range Cattle Research And Education Center, Regulations, Saqib Mukhtar, Specialty Crops

Food is Our Middle Name podcast: What’s the deal with…Florida agriculture?

by Tory Moore
October 20, 2022

On the first episode of the Food Is Our Middle Name podcast, we sit down with Bob Hochmuth to discuss Florida’s deeply rooted history in agriculture. When most people think of Florida they think beaches, theme parks and MAYBE Florida ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: #Foodisourmiddlename, Agriculture, Bob Hochmuth, Communications, Food, Food Is Our Middle Name, Fruit And Vegetable Production, History, North Florida Research And Education Center, North Florida Research And Education Center-Suwannee Valley, Podcast, Specialty Crops, Suwannee Valley, UF/IFAS Communications

UF researchers to provide information growers can use now to support their operations

by Ruth Hohl Borger
July 27, 2022

University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers will present their latest findings of immediate use to Florida’s citrus and specialty crop growers at the Florida Citrus and Specialty Crop Expo August 17 and 18 ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Citrus, Citrus Production Guide, Citrus Research, Citrus Research And Education Center, Expo, Specialty Crops, Vegetables

Florida’s next commodity: Tea?

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
June 9, 2022

University of Florida researchers tested seven types of tea plants to determine growth and yield potential as a Florida specialty crop. A publication on the study captures years three to five of their growth process, during which time ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Bala Rathinasabapathi, Brantlee Richter, Citra, Plant Science Research And Education Unit, Research, Specialty Crops, Tea

Tune in to ‘Ag Tech Expo – the Future of Farming’ May 10-11

by Brad Buck
May 4, 2021

WHO: Experts from the University of Florida and agribusiness WHAT: The public and the media are invited to tune in to a two-day virtual meeting about the future of farming. To bring food to your table, growers must compete in the global ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: "Ag Tech Expo -- The Future Of Farming", Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Gene McAvoy, J. Scott Angle, Machine Learning, Plant Genetics, Robots, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Specialty Crops

New UF/IFAS economist comes ‘home,’ looks to help harness resources

by Brad Buck
June 23, 2020

IMMOKALEE, Fla. --- Kim Morgan is coming home, in a manner of speaking. Morgan graduated from the University of Florida three times. Mostly recently, she began her position as an associate professor of food and resources economics for the ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Alumna, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Consumer Preferences, Food And Resource Economics Department, Kim Morgan, New Faculty, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Specialty Crops

UF/IFAS team aims to increase blackberry yield

by Brad Buck
June 16, 2020

BALM, Fla. --- Blackberries ripen in Florida in May and June, so it’s an ideal time to be thinking about how to grow more of them. Those who produce blackberries in Florida want to increase their yield, and UF/IFAS faculty want to help farmers ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Blackberries, Cultivars, Emerging Enterprises, Environmental Horticulture, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Horticultural Sciences, Research, Shinsuke Agehara, Specialty Crops, Zhanao Deng

Hemp, Hops and More Crops Highlight Florida Ag Expo

by Brad Buck
October 23, 2019

BALM, Fla. --- Farmers, nursery managers and others can get a glimpse of the latest and greatest UF/IFAS research into tomatoes, strawberries, hemp, hops and ornamental plants at the annual Florida Ag Expo at the UF/IFAS Gulf Coast Research ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops
Tags: Florida Ag Expo, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Hemp, Hops, Jack Rechcigl, Specialty Crops, Strawberries, Tomatoes, Zachary Brym

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