Integrated and Interdisciplinary Approaches for Research and Education

Improve Agricultural and Food Systems Production, Technology and Marketing (plants, animals and aquatics)

UF/IFAS has played a major role in developing Florida’s multi-billion dollar food and agricultural industry.     Our horticultural group has emerged as the largest and most successful department of its type in the country, animal science demonstrating strengths in breeding and reproduction, and aquaculture is the fastest growing sector of Florida agriculture.

Fruit, vegetable and crop production

• Citrus production
• Tropical fruit and vegetable production
• Sugarcane production
• High input, technologically intensive production (production management and fertilization – intensive greenhouse production
• Crop simulation and modeling
• Prediction of grain yields
• Biotechnology
• Advanced technologies
  • robotics remote sensing,
  • Mars greenhouse
  • precision agriculture
  • simulation modeling
  • space agriculture
  • watershed modeling
  • Plant breeding and genetics

Cropping, farming and livelihood systems (site specific and regional)

• Farming systems research and extension
• Livelihood systems
• Sustainable agriculture
• Organic agriculture
• Crop models for climate zones

Animal breeding, nutrition, health and management

• Dairy expertise
• Beef expertise
• Horse expertise
• Muscle foods and meat science

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