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    TREC Agricultural Economics Extension Program

    TREC Agricultural Economics Extension Program

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    Improving Your Bottom Line

    The Agricultural Economics Extension program at the Tropical Research and Education Center (TREC), University of Florida (UF) emphasizes applied trade policy analysis and related production and marketing issues. Specifically, the focus is to deliver education programs and publications that address current and emerging domestic and international trade-related policy issues impacting or having the potential to impact the production and marketing of a variety of vegetable, fruit, and ornamental horticultural products produced in Miami-Dade County.

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    Ph.D. student Sameerika Mudiyanselage (left) and her advisor Samuel Martins (right) sampling mushrooms with bacterial blotch symptoms in a mushroom farm in the Southern United States. Photo credit: UF/IFAS Samuel Martins

    DNA analyses uncover what is hiding under the cap plaguing the white button mushroom industry

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    Participants evaluate and explore diverse ethnic vegetable crops and varieties during the field day. Photo credit: Laura Vasquez

    Setting the table: UF/IFAS ‘Food is Medicine’ farm shows how culturally relevant crops can strengthen agriculture

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    Background: An okra field The insert is Dr. Xiaoying LI in her lab examining edamame.

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