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Mango season 2024 is taking shape: UF/IFAS experts offer their views

by Lourdes Mederos
May 2, 2024

Mango season is here. Mango trees on home landscapes and orchards in South Florida are working their way through the fruiting stage, making it prime time as the tiny flowers have begun to reveal tiny fruit. The 2023 mango season erupted ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Conservation, Crops, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, HOME LANDSCAPES, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Angie, Anthracnose, Charles Sims, Fairchild, Jeff Brecht, Jeff Wasielewski, Jonathan Crane, Mango, Orange Sherbet, Rosigold, Tropical Fruit, Tropical Research And Education Center, UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade County, Yu Wang, Zill High Performance Plants

Attention growers: May 9 hybrid workshop explores climate risks, opportunities for tropical fruit production in Florida

by Lourdes Mederos
May 1, 2024

What conditions are ideal for farmers to successfully grow tropical fruit in different regions of Florida? Scientists at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) say this question is at the root ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Blog Community, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: AgroClimate, Climate Change, Climate Risk, Clyde Fraisse, Haimanote Bayabil, Jeff Wasielewski, Jonathan Crane, Miami-Dade County, Southeast Climate Hub, Tropical Fruit, Tropical Research And Education Center, Young Gu Her

Attention avocado growers: UF/IFAS multi-state survey seeks to find out more about avocado disease management

by Lourdes Mederos
April 15, 2024

There is no shortage of consumer appetite for avocados. Frequently incorporated into starters and desserts, demand for avocados has surged in popularity to rival the iconic American apple pie. Meanwhile, production of avocado in the United ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Blog Community, Crops, Farm Management, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Avocado, Disease, Entomology And Nematology, Jonathan Crane, Laurel Wilt, News, Phytophthora Root Rot, Research, Tropical Research And Education Center, U.S. Department Of Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, University Of Florida, USDA NAAS

Unlocking the secrets of mites: Agricultural acarology workshop aims to increase expertise in this emerging science

by Lourdes Mederos
March 25, 2024

Mites are arachnids that are found in almost every environment with more than 55,000 described species worldwide. Some mites are classified as pests, while others are beneficial. Those who study mites are known as acarologists. Fewer ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Blog Community, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Horticulture, Invasive Species, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching, WORK & LIFE
Tags: Acarology, Alexandra Revynthi, Arachnids, Biological Control Practitioners, Daniel Carrillo, Entomology And Nematology, Extension, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Mites, News, Tropical Research And Education Center, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS TREC, UF/IFAS Tropical Research And Education Center

Veteran UF/IFAS scientist named interim chair of environmental horticulture

by Brad Buck
December 18, 2023

Wagner Vendrame, a 22-year veteran of UF/IFAS, has been named interim chair of the Department of Environmental Horticulture, effective Jan. 1. Vendrame, spent most of his career at the UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center. While ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Dean Kopsell, Environmental Horticulture, Interim Chair, Micropropagation, NASA, Robert Gilbert, Tropical Research And Education Center, Wagner Vendrame

New public-private partnership allows UF/IFAS scientist to work on growing plants, storing carbon in clay soil

by Brad Buck
September 14, 2023

In a new, public-private partnership, University of Florida scientist Zachary Brym wants to see if he can utilize plants to store carbon in clay soil in Polk County. Eventually, he’d like to see how collections of crops and other plants can ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Agroecology, Agronomy, Carbek, Carbon, Carbon Sequestration, Crops, Ecosystem Services, Plants, Polk County, Regenerative Agriculture, Soil, Soil Health, Tropical Research And Education Center, Zachary Brym

UF/IFAS research: On the verge of developing a domestic industry for one of the world’s most valuable spices

by Lourdes Mederos
August 24, 2023

Vanilla takes the crown as the second most valuable spice (after saffron) and the world’s most popular flavor among consumers. Now, University of Florida researchers in Homestead are on the verge of developing a domestic vanilla industry, ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Agriculture, Agroforestry, Agrotourism, Domestic Vanilla Industry, Florida, IFAS NEWS, News, Plant Breeding, Puerto Rico, Research, SARE, Spice, SSARE, TREC, Tropical Research And Education Center, U.S. Department Of Agriculture Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research And Education (USDA-SSARE), UF/IFAS Tropical Research And Education Center, Usda, Vanilla, Vanilla At TREC, Vanilla Extract, Vanilla Planifolia, Vanilla-breeding, Virgin Islands, Xingbo Wu

ADA is part of the DNA of UF/IFAS

by Brad Buck
July 20, 2023

Through a project called Florida AgrAbility, Serap Gorucu tries to ensure that everyone – even those with functional limitations -- can operate the technology and machinery on the farm where they work. “Agricultural producers must ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Allen Wysocki, Americans With Disabilities Act, Beekeeper, Closed-captioning, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Document Accessiblity, Event Training, Faculty, Farmers, Florida Agrability, Jerry Fankhauser, Parking, Roche Teaching Scholars, Saqib Mukhtar, Serap Gorucu, Spanish, Students, Tram, Trans-creating, Translating, Tropical Research And Education Center, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research

UF/IFAS Breaks Ground on Graduate Dormitory, Honors Emeritus Professor Contributions

by Lourdes Mederos
January 4, 2023

With an eye toward the future, the University of Florida celebrated a historic milestone with the groundbreaking of a graduate student dormitory named after a prominent Black scientist. In the heart of Miami-Dade County’s Homestead, ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Food And Resource Economics Department, How It Happened, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, News, Pauline O. Lawrence, Professor Emeritus Pauline Lawrence, Tropical Research And Education Center

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