Our Lab’s participation in the last couple of weeks Part 2: Sukhveer Bhullar presenting his Ph.D work on Graduate Student Research day at Gainesville on April 2nd. He also presented at Future of Food Forum on April 3rd. Congrats to him on representing UF-NFREC-Agronomy-Lab !

Great mentoring opportunity for me today & learning opportunity for my PhD student Sukhveer Bhullar. We were at Madison County setting up our Controlled Release Fertilizer placement trial on Corn. CRF is placed at 2 inches deep at 7 and 5 inches away from corn row. #CRF #Corn #BMPs

Planted Corn variety evaluation trial at Quincy. A total of 32 entries will be evaluated under irrigated conditions NFREC-SV My students learned about monosem vacuum planter UF IFAS NFREC Agronomy at UF UF-NFREC-Agronomy-Lab Shivendra Kumar Sukhveer Bhullar

GrassRoots Discussion-Lecture#2 Please join us in-person or via zoom to listen to Lafayette County Ag. Agent Emily Beach this Friday at 11AM UF IFAS NFREC Quincy. Zoom link is below: ufl.zoom.us/j/97346183775?…

Come join us to learn about the Research and Extension activities in grain corn on June 6, 2024 starting at 9 am onwards at NFREC-Suwannee Valley, Live Oak, Florida. Activities include N rate trial, STEP program, disease and economic updates and variety trial for N Florida.

Register here using the link for the Regional Corn Field Day at NFREC-Suwannee Valley, Live Oak, Florida June 6, 2024 starting at 9 am onwards. nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

A very well attended corn field day at NFREC-SV in Live Oak, FL on June 6th. Amazing field tours and talks. Sukhveer Bhullar Shivendra Kumar and I got to discuss about #banding #nitrogen using #HighBoy and also response of N on 5 #corn varieties

Ph.D. Opportunity!! We are looking for a qualified Ph.D. student starting Spring 2025. Please see the details in the link to the flyer (flyer image is attached) and contact us if you are interested. uflorida-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal… Please share with potential students.

PhD Assistantship: Join us in a multi-state, USDA-NIFA funded project focused on investigating plant-environment interactions in organic citrus production systems to enhance production and fruit quality.

80-day-old peanuts and active white mold in SE GA. Grower needs to shut this down. Recipe: excellent fungicide + effective rate + good spray volume + timely rain or irrigation to move fungicide through canopy. I’m not trying to spend your money. I am trying to save your crop.

Hosted a row crop (corn and cotton) variety evaluation along with Sod-based rotation (25th year long-term research and demonstration site) field day UF IFAS NFREC in Quincy, FL. Thanks for the UF-NFREC-Agronomy-Lab team for UF IFAS NFREC Quincy farm crew for their support.

Dr. Dog approves of peanut butter production Shivendra Kumar

Reverse Field Day 2024- met 8 farmers in Levy, Columbia and Suwannee County with Specialists. Covered corn, peanut and hay production area of around 20000 acres in Suwannee Valley region.Jay Capasso Sudeep Singh Sidhu, Ph.D. NFREC-SV UF IFAS NFREC Agronomy at UF Saqib Mukhtar Dr. Andra Johnson

Suwannee Valley region farms ~88,000 acres of peanuts accounting for 5% of US peanut production. Come join us for the Annual Peanut Field Day 2024 on August 13, 2024 starting at 9 am onwards at NFREC-Suwannee Valley, UF/IFAS to learn more about peanut research and Extension .

Peanuts nearly 90 days old; temperature near 90F, lower canopy still very wet at 1:00 PM. Perfect conditions for leaf spot, Rhizoctonia limb rot, and southern blight/white mold. Scout your fields and stay on a good fungicide program. Tift Co, Georgia. UGA Extension.

What to ask more for when you are among the 25 participants selected from SE US to attend the Advanced Soil Health Training organized by American Farmland Trust. Representing Univ. of Florida in Mt. Olive North Carolina. Pics from Day 1 NFREC-SV Agronomy at UF UF IFAS NFREC

Start of harvest for this season’s corn crop at UF IFAS NFREC. Corn variety trial harvest underway. Thanks to our industry partners for their support.

The Reverse Field Day in Jefferson County, FL, organized by Shivendra Kumar, was a success! Researchers toured Mr. Kirk Brock, Stephen Fulford, & Ernest Fulford’s farms, had insightful discussions on their practices, and gained valuable insights into local farming challenges.