All posts tagged "University of Florida"

Each year, the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture — led by a team at the University of California, Davis — selects a handful of students to offer agricultural expertise to organizations in developing countries. This year, 10 of the 16 chosen were University of Florida students. Through the lab’s Trellis Fund, an effort launched in 2011, graduate students from UC Davis, UF,...

Marie A. C. Langham South Dakota State University In recent years, Florida’s $9 billion commercial citrus industry...

AgroPress has started an initiative to enable students, aspiring journalists and young professionals in agriculture to take...

Stephen Futch, Ph.D., Extension Agent, Multi-County with the University of Florida citrus research and education center in...

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists this summer plan to field-test a new trap designed to disrupt the mating of Asian citrus psyllids. These pinhead-sized invasive insects transmit citrus greening, a devastating citrus disease also called “Huanglongbing.” Many insect traps use pheromones—chemical attractants—to control crop-damaging insects. At low concentrations, pheromones lure the pests...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 12, 2016) – Julie Krivanek, President of Krivanek Consulting Inc., a top strategic thinking...