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Gardening can cultivate better mental health
Many longtime gardeners will tell you that the garden is their happy place. New research suggests that... more
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Research identifies needs and tools to help urban farmers
The needs of commercial urban agriculture (CUA) operations in Florida have been relatively unknown... more
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UF/IFAS to update best management practices for key Florida crops
UF/IFAS received $8.8 million to conduct new research that will provide farmers with new and improved... more
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UF scientists finding grapes to grow in Florida
Florida farmers and other businesspeople are bubbling with enthusiasm to make wine. more
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Invasive plants can threaten native species by changing seasonal animal behavior
Invasive plants are known for negatively affecting ecosystems by outcompeting native plants. more
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The Fairhope plants fared well in Florida’s conditions.
Is tea Florida’s next commodity?
It’s decidedly iced tea season in Florida, but whether you take your tea hot or iced, sweet or unsweet, black or green, the infused... more
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Brewers savor the candy flavor of some Florida-grown hops
Brewers like the flavor and aroma that come from Florida-grown Cascade hops, says a University of Florida Extension agent. more
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UF research sheds light on which compact tomatoes grow well indoors
Because growing food indoors is increasingly popular – whether you’re gardening at home or producing tomatoes in an indoor farm... more
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New UF/IFAS professor to combine AI and plant breeding
As a child in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Carlos “Charlie” Messina knew he wanted to help people produce food... more
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Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative celebrates its 60th crop
Farmers in the Everglades Agricultural Area, like those at the Cooperative, are enjoying somewhat of a renaissance... more
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Scientists may have found a way to efficiently apply genome editing to plant breeding
Development regulators are genes that regulate plant development and growth. UF/IFAS scientists have discovered... more
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Professor/farmer named director of Southwest Florida REC
Michael Burton spends the academic year teaching and conducting research in agronomy at Missouri State University. more
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Strawberry growers globally could benefit from UF/IFAS research into dangerous disease
Strawberry farmers worldwide may get help from new University of Florida research that shows a way to battle... more
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Knot Refined barge makes maiden voyage to deliver raw sugar to New York
American Sugar Refining, Inc., a member of West Palm Beach-based ASR Group, and its parent companies... more
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Blackberries and other types of berries from the same orchard at GCREC.
Orchard tour as part of UF/IFAS blackberry growing conference May 25
Several years ago, farmers asked University of Florida scientists to help them produce blackberries as part of an effort... more
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BELLE GLADE -- An instructor helps two students build owl nesting boxes. [Photo courtesy U.S. Sugar]
Students build nesting boxes for owls
BELLE GLADE --  Fourth graders at Gove Elementary School in Belle Glade learned to  build barn owl boxes  in  April, with instruction and help from Glades Central FFA … more
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Say ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ with a plant – maybe even one bred by UF/IFAS
As Mother’s Day approaches, you can make mom feel special in any number of ways ... more
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UF/IFAS program connects small-scale growers, entrepreneurs with digital marketing tools
food market, small is good and local is what consumers seek to buy. Consumer-demand research by the U.S. Department of Agriculture tells... more
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Scientists record first case of harmful bacteria in ubiquitous weed
Scientists at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) have recorded... more
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Scientists determine ‘fingerprint’ for how much heat, drought is too much for forests
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... more
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