Many longtime gardeners will tell you that the garden is their happy place. New research suggests that...
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 7/7/22 |
The needs of commercial urban agriculture (CUA) operations in Florida have been relatively unknown...
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By Tory Moore
UF/IFAS | 7/6/22 |
UF/IFAS received $8.8 million to conduct new research that will provide farmers with new and improved...
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By Tory Moore
UF/IFAS | 7/1/22 |
Florida farmers and other businesspeople are bubbling with enthusiasm to make wine.
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 6/23/22 |
Invasive plants are known for negatively affecting ecosystems by outcompeting native plants.
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By Samantha Murray
UF/IFAS | 6/16/22 |
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...
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By Kirsten Romaguera
UF/IFAS | 6/10/22 |
Brewers like the flavor and aroma that come from Florida-grown Cascade hops, says a University of Florida Extension agent.
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Making Change By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 6/7/22 |
Because growing food indoors is increasingly popular – whether you’re gardening at home or producing tomatoes in an indoor farm...
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 5/26/22 |
As a child in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Carlos “Charlie” Messina knew he wanted to help people produce food...
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 5/25/22 |
Farmers in the Everglades Agricultural Area, like those at the Cooperative, are enjoying somewhat of a renaissance...
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By Matt Hoffman
President of Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative | 5/23/22 |
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 |
American Sugar Refining, Inc., a member of West Palm Beach-based ASR Group, and its parent companies...
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Special to Lake Okeechobee News
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5/10/22
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Several years ago, farmers asked University of Florida scientists to help them produce blackberries as part of an effort...
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 5/4/22 |
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 …
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Special to Lake Okeechobee News
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5/2/22
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As Mother’s Day approaches, you can make mom feel special in any number of ways ...
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By Brad Buck
UF/IFAS | 4/29/22 |
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 |
Scientists at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) have recorded...
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By Lourdes Mederos
UF/IFAS | 4/19/22 |
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 |