UF/IFAS in the news, 11/19

Good morning! Today’s UF/IFAS news:

 

Researcher wins prestigious award for strawberry work

http://highlandstoday.com/list/highlands-agri-leader-news/researcher-wins-prestigious-award-for-strawberry-work-20141119/

Mosquitoes bite fewer male birds

http://www.alligator.org/news/campus/article_97bef034-6fa7-11e4-bb11-cb3bc4475590.html

 

Join University Of Florida IFAS Extension For Its Annual Poinsettia Field Day

http://www.perishablenews.com/index.php?article=0040814

 

Lakeland Animal Nutrition: Feed Recalled After 3 Horses Die in South Florida (page 2)

http://www.theledger.com/article/20141118/NEWS/141119400/1410?p=1&tc=pg

 

Try Florida cranberries for Thanksgiving (Seminole Extension mention)

http://highlandstoday.com/list/highlands-agri-leader-news/try-florida-cranberries-for-thanksgiving-20141119/

 

Seminole spends $55K teaching people lawn care (TV)

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/27422638/seminole-spends-55k-teaching-people-lawn-care

 

Buddy Keen named Manatee County's agriculturist of the year

http://www.bradenton.com/2014/11/19/5482495_buddy-callon-named-manatee-countys.html?rh=1

 

 

Other news:

 

Why a star football player traded NFL career for a tractor

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-nfl-player-farms-for-good/

 

Air testing shows low levels of strawberry fumigant

http://tbo.com/news/business/air-testing-shows-low-levels-of-strawberry-fumigant-20141117/

 

FL Farmworkers Focus Of New Documentary 'Food Chains'

http://news.wjct.org/post/fl-farmworkers-focus-new-documentary-food-chains

A Plant That Grows Tomatoes Above and Potatoes Below

http://www.dailyoffbeat.com/articles/4231/20141117/plant-grows-tomatoes-above-potatoes-below.htm

 

At least 6 die as snow, cold pummels Northeast

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/11/19/wednesday-weather/19261905/

Less money borrowed nationally; fewer UF students getting loans

http://www.alligator.org/news/campus/article_86b50ea8-6fa8-11e4-bdf9-db3afe4dcc5d.html