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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.

New technology being tested by researchers at UF/IFAS to help Florida farmers reduce their costs as much as possible in order to try and stay profitable in the face of what’s called ‘citrus greening.'

Find out how you can get started with your own edible, Florida-friendly garden, and if you’re not a homeowner, find tips on creating indoor and container garden setups.

The citrus industry in Florida has been under assault by a psyllid that has spread the greening disease through orange groves since the ’90s, decimating yields and killing businesses. Researchers are now looking at older varieties for resilience in the face of this disease.

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.

UF/IFAS hopes to see how vanilla grows in Soth Florida.

About one hundred yards from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences’ Broward Extension is a sort of palm tree graveyard.A…

University of Florida researchers have made some headway in their quest for cultivating vanilla plants that would thrive in the state.The scientists have…

A big juicy ribeye was once the anathema of 1980s low-fat dieters. People were told that fat was the culprit behind weight gain, heart disease, and all…

Genetically modified foods attract a lot of criticism.Traditionally speaking, GMO, or genetically modified organism, is a term that means DNA from another…