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8 PROTECTING AND ON THE COVER
CONSERVING THROUGH
Dr. Jim Olmstead,
BEST MANAGEMENT assistant professor in

PRACTICES
Horticultural Sciences at
the University of Florida
With over four million acres of
Florida farm and ranch lands (UF) in Gainesville
is one of the many
already participating, discover
blueberry industry
the beneits of enrolling in Water experts who weigh-in
Quality and Quantity Best
on this year’s blueberry
Management Practices (BMPs)
24 FINDING A SILVER harvest.
through the FDACS.
LINING AMIDST THE BLUE
FACTORS
15 WILL JUMP FOR FOOD FOR MORE
With proits down ater some
On May 17, Ridge Riders 4-H PHOTOGRAPHY
Group put on their second of the Florida blueberry crop
from this edition,
successful horse show to help feed misses the narrow marketing visit our website at
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www.FloridaAgNews.
the contributing factors for this com.

16 NEW FINDINGS FOR A season’s challenges and how some
managed to still ind the silver
GREENING ‘TRAP PLANT’
In October of 2013, CFAN lining.
DEPARTMENTS
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featured a story on Dr. Nabil Commissioner’s
32 ROUNDING UP YOUTH AgriCorner
Killiny, Assistant Professor
AT RANGE CATTLE REC
12 President’s Column
of Vector Entomology at the 14 Publisher Letter
University of Florida’s CREC. In this Q&A, Andrea Dunlap
shares how the Seventh Annual 20 Recipe Spotlight
Since then, he and his associates 30 Editor’s Blog
Youth Field Day seeks to inspire
have made some interesting new 34 agcommunity
discoveries.
a love of agriculture and cattle 40 Calendar of Events

ranching in the leaders of 42 Classiied Directory
18 FESTIVAL CLOSE UP
tomorrow.
45 @griTech

Get a close-up look at some of the

action from the Florida Blueberry

Festival in Brooksville, as well as a
local festival at True Blue Winery

in Davenport.

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