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Commissioner’s AgriCorner: Operation Outdoor Freedom Update
Two years ago, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services launched Operation Outdoor Freedom...
Recipe Spotlight: Bringing Home the Bacon and the Bunny
Cooking wild pig doesn’t have to be a boar. We can harvest wild hogs all...
Recipe Spotlight: A tribute to citrus and seafood combinations
Ham and eggs, peanut butter and jelly, citrus and fish . . . some things...
Florida Roots: La Florida, home of the noble cracker horse
Crack! An undeniably commanding sound when heard from a ten to twelve foot long whip...
@griTech: Polk State College has a plan for tomorrow’s farming industry
Florida farmers will have much needed help soon with complex government regulations and technological equipment. ...
Commissioner’s AgriCorner: A race against time
Citrus makes up roughly $9 billion of Florida agriculture’s $100 billion yearly contribution to the...
Commissioner’s AgriCorner: Planting the seeds for growth in the Florida ag industry
Florida agriculture has played an important role in Florida’s 500-year history, providing food and fiber...
Harvest time: Organic blueberry growers battle odds in niche market
Seventy-one-year-old Benny McLean Jr.’s family used to grow citrus organically before anybody cared about organics...
Recipe Spotlight: Patriotic desserts made with Florida ingredients
July 4: Dad’s done. The ribs are bare and the corn cobs look like modern...
@griTech: Getting down to the bottom of the problem at the bay
Man-made disasters can create enormous problems for our natural environment, and the BP oil spill...
Recipe Spotlight: How a good hunt turns into a great meal
The hunt is over. The kill is cleaned. … Now, what do you do with...
At the helm of Warner’s ag program
| Lauren Lewis laying the foundation for tomorrow’s industry | After earning her Bachelor’s and...
Life after farming: Bill and Maxi Adams
| Couple is feeling at home at Lake Howard Heights | Bill Adams grew his...
Home on the ranch: Cow camp house offers rustic lifestyle
Ranch-style houses proliferate in suburbia across the United States. But the true Florida ranch house...
Observing a major pest for cattle producers — the gallinipper
In the photo: Entomologist Phil Kaufman shows the size difference between the invasive Asian tiger...
Recipe spotlight: Beef for every day of the week
Remember Clara Peller? No? She was the 81-year-old bewigged and wrinkled lady with a bad...
@griTech: Students learn the value of water through science
During the school year, Melissa Gulvin organizes school trips to agricultural locations, so students attending...
Recipe Spotlight: Jazz up your jam with Florida fruit
Way back in the Dark Ages, about 1978, I wrote my first food page. It...
@griTech: Tools Used on the Farm that Promote Precision and Conservation
A decade ago, Rich Budell notes, a GPS device wasn’t all that common. Times, he...
Recipe Spotlight: A Four-Course Meal for the Strawberry Fan
Strawberries are like potato chips … it’s hard to eat just one. And since we...
