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Florida AG Commissioner Urges USDA To Issue Disaster Declaration For Hurricane Milton Agricultural Damage
Hurricane Milton destroyed infrastructure, including this greenhouse, at the UF/IFAS Indian River Research and Education Center in Fort Pierce.
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Florida Citrus Industry Faces Devastating Blow After Hurricane Milton
Florida's citrus industry (File)
Florida's citrus industry, already reeling from citrus greening disease and the impact of previous hurricanes, ha [...]
UF/IFAS Needs Your Help To Assess Hurricane Milton’s Impact On Florida Agriculture
Hurricane Milton destroyed infrastructure, including this greenhouse, at the UF/IFAS Indian River Research and Education Center in Fort Pierce.
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University Of Florida Researchers Use AI, Lasers To Pioneer Precision Spraying To Combat Mosquitoes
Mosquito (File)
Researchers from the UF/IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL) and the Florida Museum of Natural History are working to [...]
Florida Launches Interest-Free Loan Program For Farmers, Ranchers Affected By Hurricane Helene
Fallen Trees (File)
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson has announced that farmers, ranchers, and growers affected by Hurricane Hel [...]
Southern Land-Grant Universities Create AI Centers To Encourage Faster, Accurate Solutions To Practical Problems
Jack Rechcigl, director of the UF/IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center. Courtesy, UF/IFAS.
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help feed the [...]
Hurricane Debby: Florida Agricultural Production Losses Top $93M, UF Economists Estimate
A UF/IFAS staff member holds up peanuts saturated by Hurricane Debby rainwater at the UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center - Suwannee [...]
Southern Scientists Use Artificial Intelligence To Reduce Costs, Labor On Farms
AI_Ampatzidis” shows Ampatzidis working in his lab. Courtesy, UF/IFAS photography.
Scientists throughout the South are using artificial intelligen [...]
International Team Of Scientists Make Taxonomic Breakthrough By Rewriting The ‘Termite Dictionary’
Coptotermes gestroi, commonly known as the Asian subterranean termite is a small species of termite that lives underground. Credit: UF/IFAS Thomas Ch [...]
Citizen Scientists Help University Of Florida Researchers Find Best-Tasting Tomatoes
Jessica Chitwood-Brown, an assistant professor of horticultural sciences, works in a greenhouse at the UF/IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Cent [...]