UF/IFAS in the news, 4/28

Good morning! Here is the week’s first UF/IFAS news installment:

 

UF/IFAS Team Wins National Horse-Judging Contest

http://tinyurl.com/k38mzz9

Farm to table rising

http://www.dailycommercial.com/money/article_6a3a2eab-7be7-5ea4-8df8-5198216f37cc.html

 

New Farmer Incubator Meeting on May 15 (Gadsden)

http://growingfl.com/news/2014/04/new-farmer-incubator-meeting-may-15/?utm_source=Growing+Florida&utm_campaign=26a67814e0-growingfl-daily_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a00cf5c16f-26a67814e0-296612469

 

4th annual Avon Park Blueberry Festival

http://highlandstoday.com/hi/local-news/4th-annual-avon-park-blueberry-festival-20140428/

 

Polk Training Center Rents Community Garden Plots (end of page 2)

http://www.theledger.com/article/20140428/NEWS/404285000/1134?p=1&tc=pg

Letter: Welcome center design should be revamped (Brevard/opinion)

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/opinion/readers/letters/2014/04/28/letter-welcome-center-design-revamped/8169479/

 

Florida Sea Grant Accepting Applications for New Fellowship

http://www.thefishingwire.com/story/317546

 

News for area gardeners

http://www.ocala.com/article/20140426/COLUMNISTS/140429828/-1/news300

 

Enter your vegetables in contest (St. Johns)

http://staugustine.com/living/garden/2014-04-25/enter-your-vegetables-contest#.U15G4_ldW-g

Mondays in the Gardens program offered at PSC in Milton

http://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/environment/2014/04/26/mondays-gardens-psc-milton/8216553/

 

Cool, wet spring favors azalea, camellia leaf gall (Okaloosa)

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/lifestyle/columns/larry-williams/cool-wet-spring-favors-azalea-camellia-leaf-gall-1.310159

 

Florida Land Steward …..(Washington)

http://fosterfollynews.com/2014/04/25/florida-land-steward/

Other news:

 

Facing Budget Cuts, Extension Worked to Find Local Priorities

http://growingfl.com/features/2014/04/facing-budget-cuts-extension-worked-find-local-priorities/?utm_source=Growing+Florida&utm_campaign=26a67814e0-growingfl-daily_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a00cf5c16f-26a67814e0-296612469

 

Congress takes up food-labeling fight

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2014/04/27/Congress-takes-up-food-labeling-fight/stories/201404270080

 

Sanofi Dengue Vaccine Succeeds in Reducing Disease, Study Shows

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-28/sanofi-dengue-vaccine-succeeds-in-reducing-disease-study-shows

Twisters kill at least 18, including 16 in Arkansas

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/04/28/midwest-storms/8353073/