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Florida’s blueberry growers spend $6,000 to $8,000 an acre on pine bark to make sandy soil suitable for their crop. They count on labor to hand pick berries, as well as high prices during an exclusive spring marketing window to make it all pay off.

Life is all about choices. Pick and choose what you want to do with what you have to do it with. When you have plenty of blueberries and a lot of strawberry recipes, choose to use blueberries.

Despite the federal government’s long history of egregious overreach and land grabs, it recently outdid itself.

Farm Credit of Central Florida Chairman of the Board, David J. Stanford, a Winter Garden citrus grower, announced the association’s eligible member/borrowers will benefit from patronage refunds, or profit-sharing, of $3.5 Million, significantly lowering their cost of borrowing. Farm Credit of Central Florida is a member-owned cooperative lending funds to ranchers, growers, farmers, and rural

It’s Florida and life’s a peach . . . at least it will be if the peach-growers have anything to say about it.  Nature abhors a vacuum and, thanks to Florida plant scientists, vacant land is being filled with not only profitable crops, but delicious ones too.  The profit takes longer than the flavor to

This year, Florida’s land grant universities—the University of Florida and Florida A&M University—celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, which created the Cooperative Extension Service.

There’s nothing like taking something Southern and making it something Southerner—a dish with Florida flair. After all, if you get any farther south than Florida you’re swimming for an island.

The psyllids in our citrus groves, the pythons in the Everglades, and the lovebugs on our windshields are all examples of Florida’s invasive pests. They are also great examples of how difficult—if not impossible—it is to remove invasive pests once they are introduced.

The way kids fuss over food, it’s a wonder any of them grow up. We did. And so will our children.[emember_protected custom_msg=”Click here and register now to read the rest of the article!”] But the stress is not on the youngsters, it’s the parents who suffer. He likes only chicken nuggets and bananas. She will

Florida’s sunshine and temperate climate provide for more than a great vacation destination. Our unique climate allows for the vast majority of Florida’s nearly 300 agricultural products to be in peak production between the months of October and May, which just so happens to correspond with Florida’s school year.[emember_protected custom_msg=”Click here and register now to