Alabama Landowners Can Apply for Drought Funding

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Alabama wants to remind landowners impacted by last year’s extreme drought that you have until July 28, 2017, to apply for funding.

Growers Putting CRISPR Trees Into the Ground
More than 300,000 CRISPR-edited citrus trees are being planted this year that have shown great potential against citrus greening disease in test groves. CRISPR, which stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, is a gene-editing technology to help citrus growers produce a crop amid the disease. The Florida citrus industry is eager to see […]
Gmitter and Grosser Receive Rare Award
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) citrus breeders and geneticists Fred Gmitter and Jude Grosser recently received the rare Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC) Resident Professorship Award. The award has only been bestowed four other times in CREC’s 109-year history. The award recognizes careers that have brought distinction to the […]