Marketing Opportunities for Blood Ark Clams and Ponderous Ark Clams by Robert L. Degner, Tiffany B. Southwell, Leslie N. Sturmer, Kimberly L. Morgan

“… The basic objective of this study was to determine the present market potential of Blood Ark and Ponderous Ark clams in the United States. This paper summarizes research that attempted to quantify the shellfish trade industry's present awareness and acceptance of the Blood Ark and Ponderous Ark clams as a first step in evaluating the economic feasibility of producing these clams in commercial quantities using commercially feasible aquacultural production techniques by the existing hard clam industry. …”
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Marketing Opportunities for Blood Ark Clams and Ponderous Ark Clams by Robert L. Degner, Tiffany B. Southwell, Leslie N. Sturmer, Kimberly L. Morgan

“… The basic objective of this study was to determine the present market potential of Blood Ark and Ponderous Ark clams in the United States. This paper summarizes research that attempted to quantify the shellfish trade industry's present awareness and acceptance of the Blood Ark and Ponderous Ark clams as a first step in evaluating the economic feasibility of producing these clams in commercial quantities using commercially feasible aquacultural production techniques by the existing hard clam industry. …”
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Fall Panicum: Biology and Control in Sugarcane by D. Calvin Odero, Brent Sellers, Les Baucum, Curtis Rainbolt

“…Fall panicum (Panicum dichotomiflorum) is a native grass that can be found throughout the United States in agronomic and horticultural crops, turfgrass, nurseries, landscapes, and noncrop areas. …”
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Sugarcane Cultivars Descriptive Fact Sheet: CP 96-1252, CP 01-1372 and CP 00-1101 by Hardev Sandhu, Wayne Davidson

“…These cultivars are developed through the cooperative agreement between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Canal Point, the university of Florida, Everglades Research and Education Center, Belle Glade and Florida Sugar Cane League. …”
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How to Make a Bed Bug Interceptor Trap out of Common Household Items by Benjamin A. Hottel, Rebecca W. Baldwin, Roberto M. Pereira, Philip G. Koehler

“… Bed bugs have become an increasingly common pest problem throughout the United States. To discover whether bed bugs are present in a room or a piece of furniture, you can make interceptor traps out of commonly found household items and disposable plastic containers. …”
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Reducing Your Risk for Cancer: The Power of Food by Jodi Fitzgerald, Danielle Nelson, Madison Woodard, Jeanette Andrade

“… Cancer is the #2 cause of death within the United States, where 2 out of every 5 people will be diagnosed with some form of cancer within their lifetime. …”
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Alternative Opportunities for Small Farms: Peach and Nectarine Production Review by Mercy Olmstead, Jeff Williamson, Jose Chaparro, Tim Crocker

“…They have increased the potential for expansion of commercial peach and nectarine acreage throughout much of the Florida peninsula and along the Gulf Coast regions of the southeastern United States. This revised 3-page fact sheet was written by Mercy Olmstead, Jeff Williamson, Jose Chaparro, and Tim Crocker, and published by the UF Department of Horticultural Sciences, September 2011. …”
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Spring Viremia of Carp by Barbara D. Petty, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Roy P. E. Yanong

“…It was reported in koi and feral carp in the United States for the first time in 2002. Diagnosis in farm raised fish in the U.S. may result in quarantine of the infected fish and depopulation. …”
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Cattle Tail Lice by Phillip E. Kaufman, Philip G. Koehler, Jerry F. Butler

“…In other parts of the United States the short-nosed cattle louse is the major pest. …”
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Alligatorweed flea beetle Agasicles hygrophila Selman and Vogt (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Halticinae) by Ted D. Center, James P. Cuda, Michael J. Grodowitz

“…This insect has been an extremely effective biological control agent in coastal regions of the southeastern United States. This revised 3-page fact sheet was written by Ted D. …”
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Spring Viremia of Carp by Barbara D. Petty, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Roy P. E. Yanong

“…It was reported in koi and feral carp in the United States for the first time in 2002. Diagnosis in farm raised fish in the U.S. may result in quarantine of the infected fish and depopulation. …”
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Cattle Tail Lice by Phillip E. Kaufman, Philip G. Koehler, Jerry F. Butler

“…In other parts of the United States the short-nosed cattle louse is the major pest. …”
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Ips Engraver Beetles, Ips spp. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Jeffrey M. Eickwort, Albert E. Mayfield III, John L. Foltz

“…Foltz, describes three species of pine bark beetles in the genus Ips -- the sixspined ips, I. calligraphus (Germar); the eastern fivespined ips, I. grandicollis (Eichloff); and the small southern pine engraver, I. avulsus (Eichloff) -- which live predominantly in the inner bark of stressed pines in the southern United States, where they breed and feed on phloem tissue. …”
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Fertigation via Center Pivot Irrigation for Commercial Potato Production in Florida by Guodong Liu, Xiangju Fu, Lincoln Zotarelli, Steven Sargent, Kati Migliaccio, Yuncong Li

“… Potatoes are an important crop in the United States, and Florida is ranked the 7th producer nationwide for potato production. …”
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Prevent Osteoporosis: Catch the Silent Thief by Linda B. Bobroff

“… Osteoporosis means porous bones, or bones that have so many openings (pores) that they can easily break or be crushed. In the United States, 54 million people either have osteoporosis (10 million) or are at high risk (44 million) because they have low bone mass. …”
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Ips Engraver Beetles, Ips spp. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Jeffrey M. Eickwort, Albert E. Mayfield III, John L. Foltz

“…Foltz, describes three species of pine bark beetles in the genus Ips -- the sixspined ips, I. calligraphus (Germar); the eastern fivespined ips, I. grandicollis (Eichloff); and the small southern pine engraver, I. avulsus (Eichloff) -- which live predominantly in the inner bark of stressed pines in the southern United States, where they breed and feed on phloem tissue. …”
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Rice Beetle, Dyscinetus morator (Fab.) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) by Robert E. Woodruff

“… he rice beetle, Dyscinetus morator (Fabricius) (Figure 1), is a common beetle in the eastern half of the United States, and it is one of the most ubiquitous species taken in blacklight traps during much of the year. …”
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Complying with Farm Labor Regulations: Correctly Counting Compensable Hours by Fritz M. Roka, Michael T. Bayer

“… United States law requires farm employers to keep accurate records of the number of daily compensable hours worked by their seasonal and migrant farm workers. …”
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Attracting Native Bees to Your Florida Landscape by Rachel Mallinger, Anne Yasalonis, Gary Knox, Wayne Hobbs

“…Recently reported declines in some bee species have heightened awareness of bee conservation across the United States and motivated efforts to increase floral resources for bees. …”
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Peachtree Borers in the Home and Commercial Peach Orchard by Russell F. Mizell, III

“… The peachtree borer, Synanthedon exitiosa (Say), and the lesser peachtree borer, S. pictipes (Grote and Robinson), are the most important pests of peach in the southern United States. The larvae of these day-flying moths mine beneath the bark of the trunk and scaffold limbs of peach trees of all ages. …”
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