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Plant City’s Fancy Farms Wins 4R Advocate Award

Fancy Farms, a strawberry farm in Plant City, Florida, is one of the five winners of the Fertilizer Institute’s 4R Advocate Award for 2019. The award is being presented this week during Commodity Classic in Orlando, Florida. Dustin and Carl Grooms of Fancy Farms will be recognized, as well as Jerrod Parker of Chemical Dynamics as Fancy Farms’ fertilizer service …

A New Way To Stay Current With PULAs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new email subscription feature to help pesticide users quickly receive updates from the Bulletins Live! Two system. The updates will include notifications about new Pesticide Use Limitation Areas (PULAs) and changes to existing PULAs. EPA developed this feature in response to requests from pesticide users who asked […]
Managing Alternate Bearing With Fruit Thinning
Three University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers recently authored an article explaining how to manage alternate bearing in citrus with fruit thinning. Alternate bearing is the tendency for trees to carry a heavy crop one year, followed by a season of very little fruit. The authors are Masood Jan and Muhammad […]