UF/IFAS Researchers Try Their Hand at 22 Hops Varieties by BRAD BUCK, UF/IFAS correspondent If you hopped over to the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center and tasted the craft beer made from hops grown by scientists at the University of Florida, you’d notice it’s a little bitter, but researchers and brewers say that’s […]
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Florida Hemp Farmers Use Lessons of Previous Years to Forge Ahead by TERESA SCHIFFER When then-Governor Rick Scott opened the door in 2017 for universities to cultivate hemp for research projects, he introduced a possible new avenue for Florida growers. Now, years later, growers throughout the state are testing the waters to see just how
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Lakeland artist Daniel Butler works to preserve the disappearing natural Florida landscape. story by PAUL CATALA photos by MICHAEL WILSON Daniel Butler has spent time in ditches, standing in the muck in bemired shoes, among strands of trees during humid summer days and out in open pastures amid hovering flies just to picture it right.
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The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Gulf Coast Research and Education Center is your center. It exists to serve you. So you’re always invited. Please visit on Nov. 18. It’s when Florida Ag Expo returns after a COVID-19 interruption last year. I plan to be there, and I want to
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by ERIKA ALDRICH Sponsored by Farm Credit of Central Florida When it comes to naming the lifeblood of the Florida agriculture industry, there’s a good case to be made for it being citrus. Historically, the Sunshine State and citrus have been nearly synonymous. However, as a new season is poised to begin, the Florida citrus
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Intermediate Florida Beef Ambassador Excited to Share Her Passion by TERESA SCHIFFER It’s only natural that 13-year-old Reagan Hancock of Levy County would be named this year’s Intermediate Florida Beef Ambassador. After all, her mother grew up on a farm, Reagan has been active in 4-H since kindergarten, and she has been showing beef cattle
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Equine Therapy Program Reaches Teens, Adults With Disabilities On a New Level by PAUL CATALA The connection between horses and humans facilitates a bond that can help us overcome intense challenges. That’s why Inspire Equine Therapy Programs uses activities and interactions with horses to help teens and adults with disabilities, as well as veterans with
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Growers Cautiously Eye Weather, Drop Rate Heading Into New Season by TIM CRAIG As the Florida citrus industry waits for the official 2021-2022 USDA Citrus Forecast Report to drop in mid-October, some of the growers think “the drop” may be one of the keys to the whole season. The 2020-2021 season finished with 52.8
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Fungal Pathogen Effective Control for Insect Associated With Citrus Greening by ROBIN KOESTOYO, UF/IFAS correspondent The Asian citrus psyllid transmits the bacterium associated with the most serious citrus disease worldwide — and now it has a formidable enemy in a fungal pathogen. The disease is citrus greening — the citrus industry at its zenith was
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Lourdes Pérez Cordero Brings Her Knowledge of Entomology to the Team by RUTH BORGER, UF/IFAS correspondent Lourdes Pérez Cordero did not grow up in a citrus growing family, but you wouldn’t know that after meeting her. Pérez, who recently started her position as the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Science Extension agent
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