April 2021

New Hope for Citrus?

UF Researchers Discover a Potential Way to Control Greening by HEATHER MACHOVINA UF researchers have uncovered another potential tool in the fight against citrus greening. Known as FANA molecules, these small, single-stranded nucleic acids can be used to silence the HLB bacterial pathogen and shut down essential processes in the psyllid vector. Headed by Dr. […]

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Taking the Reins

Polk County’s Special Olympics Equestrian Team Builds More Than Skill by PAUL CATALA When Angel Woessner first approached the horses in the stable about two years ago, she was nervous and cautious. But since that first day at Bartow’s Rockin’ W Ranch, Woessner has won more than 50 medals and trophies, has grown accustomed to

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Back to Normalcy?

Beef Industry Taking Ups and Downs in Stride by TIM CRAIG For the Florida livestock industry, it’s been a 13-month crash course on how to survive a pandemic and keep the essential industry operations going — and growing, if possible — in order to do what it does every year: provide quality meat products that

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