Olivia Glenn and her mount compete at the Southern Regional 4-H Championships IF YOU’VE BEEN RIDING HORSES since the age of six like sixteen-year-old Olivia Glenn has, competing in the Southern Regional 4-H Horse Championships is a big deal. “It was very exciting,” shares Glenn. A sophomore at Winter Haven High School, Glenn advanced through […]
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BOK TOWER GARDENS and the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) teamed up to display the “fruits of their labor” recently at the grand opening of the new garden section at the Lake Wales attraction.
Scientists and growers get ready for the Florida Ag Expo THE AGENDA for the Florida Ag Expo at the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center (GCREC) on November 2 includes a session on the Q-biotype whitefly, but not because it’s already wreaking havoc on your fruit and vegetable crops.
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FLORIDA CITRUS PACKERS, INC.. named Frank M. Hunt, III, the 2016 recipient of the John T. Lesley Award for Excellence. The award is the packinghouse trade association’s highest, for an individual making sustained and outstanding contributions to the Florida citrus industry, and has long been given to the top leaders of the industry.
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LIKE A PLANT STARTS as a seed, sometimes an idea starts as an initiative before it takes root. About 17 years ago, colleagues with a similar desire used their initiative to form Restaurants Against Hunger Community Farm to raise money to help The Mission in Winter Haven.
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U.S. senators sponsor legislation for the citrus industry AS FLORIDA CITRUS growers continue to battle citrus greening, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has joined U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), the original sponsor, in championing the Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act. That act will allow growers to immediately expense the cost of planting new citrus instead
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YOU WANT TO BE AS COOL as a cucumber when working with your show cattle, and an important part is heading off heat stress in your animals. In Florida, the conditions are just about always ripe for creating heat stress in your show cattle.
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Recent cases of Salmonella Enteritidis linked to backyard flocks WHETHER IT’S DUE to the high cost of living, the desire to lead a healthier lifestyle, or simply for the enjoyment of producing one’s own food and being near nature, more and more backyard chicken coops are popping up in suburbia. This “back-to-nature” trend has enabled
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EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS (EEE) has claimed its third victim of the year in Polk County, and officials are recommending that horse owners take precautions, as more cases are expected. A six-year-old Arabian, with no EEE vaccine history or recent travel, began showing clinical signs on June 19 and was subsequently euthanized the same day. It’s
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Two CREC professors map out how certain varieties could hold the key to more HLB-tolerant citrus trees FOR THOSE IN THE FLORIDA citrus industry, some say it’s the 11th hour. Citrus harvests are down 70 percent and a survey revealed an 80 percent rate of tree infection throughout Florida. However, the quest to find a
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