by Ethan Carter | Feb 16, 2024
NEW DATE – March 29 – Due to the High chance of rain on March 22nd, this event was rescheduled for March 29, 2024 On March 22nd, 2024, the Wiregrass Research Education Center (WREC) in Headland, Alabama will host its annual Cover Crop Field Day (167 E AL...
by ndilorenzo | Oct 6, 2023
Nicolas DiLorenzo and Tessa Schulmeister, UF/IFAS North Florida Research & Education Center, Marianna Carinata is a novel, non-food oilseed crop, gaining popularity because the oil from the seed can be extracted for use as a 100% drop-in jet biofuel. ...
by David Wright | Jan 29, 2021
– Ramdeo Seepaul, Ian Small, Sheeja George, David Wright, North Florida Research and Education Center, and Michael Mulvaney, West Florida Research and Education Center Carinata is grown primarily as a sustainable source of non-edible oils, which can be refined...
by Fanny Iriarte | Mar 22, 2019
Fanny Iriarte, Ian Small, David Wright, Ramdeo Seepaul, Jim Marois and Myles Gibson Sclerotinia stem rot (most commonly known as white mold), caused by the fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, is a common disease of the brassica crop carinata. In the last 4-5 years, white...
by Ian Small | Apr 27, 2018
Authors: Dan Geller, Ben Christ, Wendy-Lin Bartels, Bill Hubbard, Sheeja George, Ian Small, David Wright This Spring, both farmers and researchers in the Southeast United States are at work. Inside the farm gate, producers are taking advantage of every opportunity to...
by Ian Small | Feb 2, 2018
Ian Small, Ramdeo Seepaul, Mike Mulvaney and David Wright, UF/IFAS Researchers This week a Qantas jet flew from the United States to Australia using biofuel generated from Brassica carinata (carinata). This event was just one of several exciting developments involving...
