This Year’s Drought Could Affect Next Year’s Sugar Crop

Randall Weiseman May 26, 2011 Florida, Specialty Crops, Sugar, Weather

South Florida’s lingering drought is starting to become a real nuisance for our growers and Belle Glade sugarcane and vegetable producer, Rick Roth, explains that the concern is going to extend well into next season.

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Greening Addressed at International Epidemiology Workshop
Fundecitrus researchers Renato Bassanezi and Silvio Lopes in April addressed the citrus greening situation in Brazil from an epidemiological point of view during the International Epidemiology Workshop held in Brazil. Lopes presented work on the potential of citrus plants in backyards being a source of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (the bacterium associated with greening) inoculum for […]
SunLime Has High Marketing Potential
Finger limes are liked by consumers and might be marketed to high-end food outlets, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) researchers reported recently. Speaking at a finger lime field day April 24 at the Citrus Research and Education Center, UF/IFAS data management analyst Fredy Ballen offered take-away messages from consumer/market research […]

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