See the 2025 Florida Citrus Show seminar schedule for the upcoming event, scheduled March 13th in Ft. Pierce
The Florida Citrus Show is coming up on March 13th, 2025. It will be held at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Indian River Research and Education Center and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory in Ft. Pierce, FL, according to the show’s website. The event will feature both a citrus seminar and a vegetable seminar, and they will be “packed with the newest information for growers.” See the 2025 Florida Citrus Show seminar schedule below.
2025 Florida Citrus Show Seminar Schedule
The website shared the following for the 2025 Florida Citrus Show seminar schedule:
General Session Program
9:00 a.m.- Welcome/Introductions
9:15 a.m. – Citrus Research Update
Rick Dantzler, Citrus Research and Development Foundation
9:30 a.m. – Ag Workforce Updates
Jamie Fussell, Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association
9:50 a.m. – Charting the Future: Ag Markets, Policy and Specialty Crops
Danny Munch, American Farm Bureau Federation
10:10 a.m. – Panel Discussion: Surviving in the HLB Era
Daniel Scott, Jerry Mixon, Brian Updike, Doug Feek and Tom Mitchell
11:00 a.m. – Lunch/Trade Show
Citrus Seminar Program
1:00 p.m. – Citrus Breeding Panel: More Tools in Our Toolbox — New Citrus Varieties and CRISPR Plants
Jude Grosser and Manjul Dutt, UF/IFAS; Matt Mattia and Kim Bowman, USDA-ARS
1:40 p.m. – Update on the Millennium Block and Grapefruit
Flavia Zambon, UF/IFAS
1:50 p.m. – CUPS Research Update
Arnold Schumann, UF/IFAS
2:00 p.m. – Revisiting Citrus Black Spot in Florida
Clive Bock, USDA-ARS
2:10 p.m. – Can Individual Protective Covers (IPCs) Become BMPs?
Sandra Guzmán, UF/IFAS
2:20 p.m. – Protecting Young Trees — An Update on IPCs
Fernando Alferez, UF/IFAS
2:30 p.m. – Early Results on the Statewide Citrus BMP Project
Davie Kadyampakeni, UF/IFAS
2:40 p.m. – Optimizing Oxytetracycline Injections
Ute Albrecht, UF/IFAS
2:50 p.m. – Grove-First Project Update — A New Framework to Find HLB Solutions
Michelle Heck and Randy Niedz, USDA-ARS
3:00 p.m – Program Concludes
GROVE TOURS: Following the Citrus Seminar, attendees will have the opportunity to tour the USDA-ARS Picos Farm where the “Grove-First” trunk injection therapies are being evaluated and the UF/IFAS Millennium Block, the large-scale trial of grapefruit rootstocks and scions.
Vegetable Seminar Program
Moderator: Erin Rosskopf, USDA-ARS
1:00 p.m. – Area-Wide Pest Management to Control Vegetable Virus Vectors
Clive Bock, USDA-ARS
1:15 p.m. – Detecting Ralstonia solanacearum in Tomato and Blueberry Irrigation Ponds
Jason Hong, USDA-ARS
1:30 p.m. – Microgreen Production and Biofortification
Erin Rosskopf, USDA-ARS
1:45 p.m. – Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation for Disease Management
Jason Hong, USDA-ARS
2:00 p.m. – A Vegetable App to Predict Soil Moisture and Improve Irrigation
Ziwen Yu, UF/IFAS
Moderator: Anna Mészáros, UF/IFAS
2:15 p.m. – Nematode Management in Pepper Production
Johan Desaeger, UF/IFAS
2:30 p.m.- University of Florida Pepper Breeding Program: Developing Varieties With Enhanced Resistance to Nematodes and Bacterial Spot
Dominick Padilla, UF/IFAS
2:45 p.m. – Thrips parvispinus Management in Peppers
Anna Mészáros and Julien Beuzelin, UF/IFAS
3:00 p.m. – Pepper Weevil Management
Dak Seal, UF/IFAS
3:15 p.m. – Weed Control in Pepper Production: Chemical and Cultural Strategies
Ramdas Kanissery, UF/IFAS
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