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Pollinators are responsible for assisting about 80% of the world's flowering plants to reproduce, and that includes quite a few crops grown for food. We learn about the work being done by pollinators all around us, and get some tips on how to attract them to our yard, and how to keep from harming them by misusing pesticides.

Despite some frost and overnight temperatures as low as 27 degrees in some pockets of Southwest Florida last weekend, Florida’s vegetable and citrus industries are reporting minimal damage.

Researchers with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are trying to reduce pests and diseases for Florida’s $300 million-a-year strawberry industry.

Florida has the most invasive species of any state in the country, and half of the insects, reptiles, arachnids and crustaceans imported into the United…

The University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its Citrus Research Education Center on…

Bees often bring to mind images of large hives dripping with honey and buzzing with the common honey bee. But thousands of North American bee species live…

Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio met with Southwest Florida citrus growers Friday in Immokalee to discuss challenges facing the industry and how the…

Florida’s tomato growing season is now in full swing and growers are hopeful the industry will rebound after this past season during which farmers saw a…

A new study by University of Florida researchers finds Florida strawberry growers would benefit by starting the growing season just a few weeks earlier…

The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, UF/IFAS, is holding training sessions in October and November for farm labor…