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The University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is training beekeepers over the next couple of days as part of its annual Spring Bee College Program.
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The Porters Quarters Community Farm Farmers Market , a pop-up market in the Porters Community Garden, launched on Wednesday with 16 vendor tables selling clothing, jewelry, books and desserts, among other products.
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Once standing at 18 feet tall and requiring ladders for harvest – the citrus trees are now barely half that height and struggle to survive in the grip of disease.
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Minority-owned farms in Alachua County were some of 43,000 nationwide to receive part of a $2.2 billion payout from the U.S. Department of Agriculture last July.
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Jack Gillen of Micanopy is pioneering efforts to preserve an endangered species in Florida - Cracker horses and cattle, in a state where it's ever tougher to own farm land.
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After over a decade of research, agronomists and researchers at UF/IFAS are continuing to assess the performance of carinata, basing their research at the North Florida Research and Education center located in Quincy, Florida.
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Warmer temperatures and new technologies help an industry once lost to freezes.
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These tensions among agriculture, water quality and fishing play out from the Suwannee River Valley in Florida to to northern states, like Ohio, around Lake Erie. Amid ongoing discussions of the waterways’ inherent ecological value, new research zeros in on water quality and economic impacts of future land use changes.
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For peanut farmers, harvest season has always been hurricane season. But more intense storms and rising costs are making it harder for producers to recover. Helene is the third hurricane to hit the area in 13 months.
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Hurricane Debby caused up to $263.2 million in estimated losses to crops and farm animals when the Category 1 rainmaker swept through North Florida last month.
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A man with a long record of dangerous driving told investigators he smoked marijuana oil and took prescription drugs hours before he sideswiped a bus, killing eight Mexican farmworkers and injuring dozens more.
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Save Our Rural Areas also fights to keep development in the county within the urban growth boundary. Tim Gant, the group’s president, got involved when his home was threatened by the development of a subdivision.