FL Included in NRCS Project to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Randall Weiseman June 9, 2011 Dairy, Energy, Florida, USDA-NRCS

The Florida dairy industry is included in a project to test and verify exciting new approaches to greenhouse gas reduction. The following report has more details on the effort from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and NRCS Chief Dave White.

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Planting Cold-Hardy Citrus in Florida
Muhmmad Shahid and Shahid Iqbal recently provided advice on planting cold-hardy citrus in Florida. Shahid is an assistant professor of horticulture/fruit physiologist, and Iqbal is a postdoctoral scholar in horticultural sciences, both at the University of Florida North Florida Research and Education Center. Edited excerpts from their article in the Cold Hardy Citrus Connection follow: […]
Phytophthora: A Complex Problem
While the recent Florida Citrus Growers’ Institute presentations focused mainly on HLB, other topics were addressed, including phytophthora root rot. This disease has become more problematic in recent years. Megan Dewdney, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences associate professor of plant pathology, spoke on the topic. She noted that phytophthora already is […]

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