See the details of seminars at the upcoming Citrus & Specialty Crop Expo, August 21–22 at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa.
The Citrus & Specialty Crop Expo is “one of Florida’s largest agriculture seminar and trade show events,” and its primary goals are to provide unequalled continuing education and industry fellowship opportunities annually for growers, industry leaders, decision-makers and vendors.” This event is coming to the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa August 21–22. The event includes informational seminars that “address important timely topics of universal interest to growers, farm planners, personnel managers, agribusiness owners and industry leaders. Program topics in development include labor, the water management issues and more.” See the details of this year’s seminars and how to attend below.
Seminar at the Citrus & Specialty Crop Expo
Seminars at the Citrus & Specialty Crop Expo include:
Citrus Seminars
- Optimizing Oxytetracycline (OTC) Injections; Ute Albrecht, UF/IFAS
- Integrating Antibiotics into a Broader Management Plan for Psyllids and HLB; Lukasz Stelinski, UF/IFAS
- Integrated Grove Management Practices and Plant Growth Regulators; Tripti Vashisth, UF/IFAS
- UF/IFAS Researcher Panel: Optimizing Production in the Grove
- Grove First: New and Old Chemistries for HLB Management; Brian Scully, Randy Niedz and Michelle Heck, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- UF/IFAS Crop Transformation Center Working for Citrus Growers; Charlie Messina, UF/IFAS
- The Economics of OTC Injections; Ariel Singerman, UF/IFAS
- Bulimulus Snail Management in Citrus; Lauren Diepenbrock, UF/IFAS
- Citrus Nutrient BMP Update and Irrigation Management of HLB-Affected Citrus; Davie Kadyampakeni, UF/IFAS
- HLB-Tolerant Early Season Sweet Oranges; Manjul Dutt, UF/IFAS
- The Economics of Breaking the Diaprepes Life Cycle; Larry Duncan, UF/IFAS
- Establishing New Varieties in a New Citrus Grove; John Chater, UF/IFAS
- Grower Panel on Optimizing Production in Today’s Environment
CEUS and CCAS are available for many of the seminar topics.
Register here to attend. The event is free for “commercial growers, commercial grove owners, commercial grove managers, certified crop advisers, grower association executives, government, legislative, and universities.”
Griffin Fertilizer is committed to helping both growers and ranchers make sound agronomic and economic decisions in order to maximize the health of their grove and pasture. As a full-service custom dry & liquid fertilizer blender and crop protection product distributor, we will continue our mission to further advance Florida agriculture. For questions -or concerns about your farm or pasture, contact us and one of our team will be in touch.