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 From
the Director: Our goal
is to provide the faculty with the latest news from the Center research
projects and extension activities, and other timely information items.
Please feel free to use the contents of the newsletter in your county
newsletters and education activities as you wish. If you'd like additional
details on newsletter items, contact the faculty member author or our
editor, Cheryl Vergot.
Regards, Dr. George Hochmuth, NFREC Director
Dates
of Interest
(Call ahead to confirm date and time
on events.)
January
18: Dooryard Fruits Pruning Update Demonstration, 3:00 p.m.
Stanley Dennis' Orchard, 5 mi. S. of Crawfordville
Dr. Tim Crocker, Demonstrator
January
25 and February 1, 8, 15, 22: Beef Cattle Management Short Course
Local Extension Office
January 30:
Retirement Reception for Ann Parramore
Leon
County Agricultural Center 4:00
– 6:00 p.m.
February
13: Home Vegetable Gardening Demonstration 4:00 p.m.
Wakulla Extension Office
February
15: Panhandle (NW Florida)
Beef Conference & Trade Show
Marianna Ag Center
February
16: Winter Florida Bull Test Sale
NFREC Beef Unit
February
19-20: Fed Cattle Show, Jackson County Ag Center
February
24: Wakulla Swine Show
Wakulla Extension Arena
March
1: Beef Cattle Management Course
Local Extension Office
March
6: Panhandle Peanut Short Course
Jackson Co. Agriculture Center
Hwy. 90 West, Marianna
March 7-8:
West Florida Livestock Show & Sale
William
Inman Agricultural Center, Quincy
April 17:
Extension Agent In-Service Training
Native Wildflowers for
Central and South Florida
April
18-20: Seeds for the Future, Wildflower & Grass Seed Production
Conference
May
23: DDIS Inservice Training
University of Florida, Plant Pathology Department, Fifield Hall,
Gainesville
More
Info on Dates
April 18-20
Seeds
for the Future:
A National Native Wildflower and Grass Seed Production Conference
will be held in ORLANDO on April 18-20, 2001.
For registration
information, please call Nancy Hummel in the Environmental Mgt. Office of
the Florida Dept. of Transportation at (850) 922-7206. For program
information, please call Jeff Norcini at the NFREC-Monticello at (850)
342-0988 or SC 297-0988.
April
17, 2001
Extension
Agent In-Service Training: Native Wildflowers for Central and South
Florida: Identification and Culture
Marie Selby
Botanic Garden, Sarasota
Contacts: Jeff
Norcini (850-342-0988; SC 297-0988); Mark Shelby (941-316-1000; SC
516-7269)
http://nfrec.ifas.ufl.edu/Faculty_web_page/faculty_Monticello_Norcini.html
University
of Florida/IFAS
North
Florida Research & Education Center
(Norcini,
NFREC News, 3-2)
Peanut Short Course
The
Panhandle Peanut Short Course is scheduled for Tuesday, March 6, 2001, at
the Jackson Co Agriculture Center located on U.S. Hwy 90 west in
Marianna.
(Jowers,
NFREC News, 3-2)
Row Crop Meeting
The row
crop meeting, which emphasizes peanuts, is scheduled for 2/12/01,12:00
noon - 2:30pm, in Jay. For information, contact John Atkins at (850)
675-6654.
(Atkins, NFREC News, 3-2)
Crops Meeting
We
will have a "Crop Production Meeting" in Okaloosa County
on February 12, 2001. Meeting speakers include: David Wright, Tom
Kucharek and Gerald Edmondson. The time is 6-9 p.m.
(Edmondson,
NFREC News, 3-2)
Dear
Nursery/ABS Member/Bamboo Vendor/Bamboo Lover;
The
Chatham, Bryan, Effingham County Cooperative Extension Services are
combining programs with the SE Chapter of the American Bamboo Society
Meeting to provide an educational seminar called Growing Bamboo in
Georgia. This seminar is a two day event located at the Bamboo Farm
& Coastal Gardens in Savannah GA. The dates are Saturday and Sunday
February 17 & 18, 2001. There is a gigantic demand for bamboo from
homeowners but a severe lack of nurseries that grow bamboo. This
educational seminar is designed to instruct nurseries/and bamboo lovers on
how to grow bamboo. Enclosed is a copy of the agenda. As you can see, all
topics of bamboo growing will be covered.
The $20/person fee will include registration, a colored picture
publication called “Growing Bamboo in Georgia” (created for this
program), refreshments, and vendor source list. Registration for the first
person will be $30 after 01/26/01 and the Growing Bamboo in Georgia book
will be mailed. You will be able to meet vendors and purchase starter
plants. There is a $10 registration fee for each additional
family/business member to cover the costs of refreshments. You will meet
and interact with ABS (American Bamboo Society) members and make those
valuable contacts with the professionals which is so important in business
today. There will also be 3 hours of GA pesticide recertification credit
given.
The
La Quinta Inn (912) 925-9505 and International Guest House (912) 927-2999
(located very close to the Bamboo Farm) have special prices. Just mention
you are with the Bamboo Seminar. Please call David Linvill at (912)
652-7981 with any questions. Please register by 01/26/01 so that you will
receive a copy of the Growing Bamboo in Georgia book at the
meeting.
Sincerely,
David
Linvill (CEA)
Chatham
County Extension Agent
(Knox, NFREC News, 3-2)
Plant Disease Diagnosis Through Digital Imaging -
IST in Gainesville
Within the 2001 Distance Diagnostic and Identification System (DDIS)
program, there are several ISTs (# 20049, 20052, 20054, 20057,
20064, 20071, 20086 and 20111) that will give you the opportunity to
enhance your ability to conduct DDIS and/or plant disease diagnosis using
microscopes (see http://pdec.ifas.ufl.edu/2001inservice.htm
).
The following is one of the ISTs specifically developed for county agents
who already have some experience of plant disease diagnosis but would like
to become more familiar with microscope uses in plant disease
diagnosis: This in-service training is limited to ten participants (few
more available).
Course ID: 20111 (see http://pdec.ifas.ufl.edu/2001inservice.htm
)
Course Title: Plant Disease Diagnosis Through Digital Imaging
Instructors: Tom Kucharek, Jim Kimbrough, Tim Momol and Richard Cullen
Location and Time: University of Florida, Plant Pathology Department,
Fifield Hall, Rm: 1308 Gainesville,
FL May 23,
2001 8:30 am
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(Momol, NFREC News, 3-2)
Livestock/Forage
Update:
Options
for Small to Medium Ranches
The theme of this year’s Northwest Florida Beef Conference and Trade
Show is marketing and purchasing options for small to medium size ranches.
Many producers in the Southeast are interested in knowing what is
available for ranches that can’t sell truckload lots or purchase large
enough quantities for volume discounts. The Beef Conference will be held
on Thursday, February 15 with the trade show getting underway at 8:00 AM
at the Jackson County Agriculture Center (fair grounds) located 2 miles
west of Marianna on Highway 90. This is the day before the Winter Florida
Bull Test Sale at the North Florida Research and Education Center Beef
Unit.
Dr. Tim Marshall, University of Florida Animal Science Department, will
share his thoughts on the changing structure of cattle marketing and input
purchasing in the years ahead. Rodney Weatherly, Heritage Beef Company
will share a new program that his company has started for buying calves at
centralized locations. Heritage Beef provides carcass data and shared
profits on the calves they buy, but do not require truckload lots. A
representative from a rancher cooperative in Kentucky will share their
experiences with purchasing inputs as a group. They have experienced
18-40% discounts when buying inputs together. An Alabama Marketing Co-op
representative will be on-hand as well, to share how they have formed a
group sale that has benefited their members. Ed Neel, Chipley Livestock
Market will discuss the Livestock Market Association’s new LMA-Vacc
Program for marketing health value added calves. Dr. Bob Sand will
complete the program with a discussion and demonstration on bull selection
using the data from the Florida Bull Test. It is not the intent of this
program to promote any specific form of marketing or purchasing, but
simply to make producers aware of some new alternatives.
The Beef Conference is annual event sponsored by University of Florida
Extension Agents in the Panhandle of Florida and the Allied Industry Trade
Show Representatives. There are no fees for participants because the
exhibitor fees cover the cost of lunch as well as the speakers’ travel
expenses.
For
more information contact:
Doug Mayo, Livestock
Agent
Jackson County Extension
850-482-9620 or Sun 789-9620
email: demayo@mail.ifas.ufl.edu
Web Page: http://livestock.ifas.ufl.edu
Thought
for the Day:
Success
is the Sum of Small Efforts Repeated Day In and Day Out.
Cheryl Vergot, Public Relations
NFREC - Quincy, U/F IFAS
E-Mail: cvergot@ifas.ufl.edu
Phone: (850) 875-7112
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