Florida Fertilizer and Agrichemical Association News

Florida Fertilizer and Agrichemical Association (FFAA) recently held elections, presented awards and conducted other business at its summer meeting near Naples. Among other things, Brent Sutton of Growers Fertilizer Corp. in Lake Alfred was elected Chairman, and Jim Bellar was presented with FFAA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Learn more from these news releases:
FFAA Board Election News 2007 (pdf file)
FFAA Lifetime Achievement Award 2007 (pdf file)

Ag Pests and Climate Warming
A team of nine researchers led by University of California Davis (UC Davis) entomologist Mia Lippey recently published a paper on climate warming and the effect on agricultural pests. Their work, Field Data Challenge Predictions of Universal Crop Pest Proliferation Under Warming, appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It contradicts experiments indicating that […]
June Drop Underway in Cold-Hardy Citrus Region
It may not be June, but growers in the cold-hardy citrus region are experiencing June drop, a natural thinning process in which trees lose a lot of their fruit. Growers should not be alarmed about excess pieces of fruit that may be on the ground, says Mary Sutton, University of Georgia (UGA) assistant professor and […]