Florida farmers and other businesspeople are bubbling with enthusiasm to make wine.
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 6/23/22 |
Development regulators are genes that regulate plant development and growth. UF/IFAS scientists have discovered...
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 5/20/22 |
Michael Burton spends the academic year teaching and conducting research in agronomy at Missouri State University.
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 5/20/22 |
Strawberry farmers worldwide may get help from new University of Florida research that shows a way to battle...
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 5/11/22 |
food market, small is good and local is what consumers seek to buy. Consumer-demand research by the U.S. Department of Agriculture tells...
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By Lourdes Mederos
UF/IFAS | 4/26/22 |
How hot is too hot, and how dry is too dry, for the Earth’s forests? A new study from an international team of researchers found the answers...
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By Kirsten Romaguera
UF/IFAS | 4/9/22 |
Oyster farmers face many challenges when growing a healthy harvest, as the market is highly diverse.
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By Tory Moore
UF/IFAS | 4/8/22 |
As April starts this week, we enter the Florida blueberry season and the sweet taste that comes with the fruit.
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 4/2/22 |
On March 25, 70 high school students from across the country visited the University of Florida campus in Gainesville to learn more about academic...
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By Samantha Murray
UF/IFAS | 4/1/22 |
Soil health is an important aspect to strawberry and tomato production. Farmers often apply a type of pesticide called fumigants to the soil months
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 3/26/22 |
Sometimes in science, a new perspective brings an “a ha!” moment. That’s what one senior researcher at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural...
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By Ruth Borger
UF/IFAS | 3/5/22 |
U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) this week launched the Agriculture Advisory Committee in Florida’s 17th Congressional District. Ranchers and ...
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Special to Lake Okeechobee News
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2/28/22
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Tomatoes are big business in Florida, the nation’s top producer of the popular fruit, but an insect no bigger than a grain...
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By Kirsten Romaguera
UF/IFAS | 2/25/22 |
Finger limes, a unique citrus variety gaining interest among chefs, foodies and citrus growers ...
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Special to Lake Okeechobee News
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2/18/22
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Samira Daroub has been named director of the UF/IFAS Everglades Research & Education Center...
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By Lourdes Mederos
UF/IFAS | 2/17/22 |
This century, food producers will face a complex challenge: grow enough food to help billions more people get the nutrition they nee ...
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By Samantha Murray
UF/IFAS
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2/11/22
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Can a computer “taste” a tomato or a blueberry? Well, not exactly, but it can tell scientists which volatiles in these fruits make them taste good...
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 2/10/22 |
With a device they can make on their own for only $159, arborists can for the most part accurately assess ...
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By Brad Buck
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Think of the 27-expert, nine-country survey team as tree epidemiologists, looking for the next “tree pandemic” ...
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By Kirsten Romaguera
UF/IFAS | 2/7/22 |
Bermudagrass is the most used warm-season perennial grass forage in the southeastern United States ...
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By Esteban Rios
UF/IFAS | 2/7/22 |