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Growing food means growing Florida’s economy. Science helps grow them both.
At the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences we hear it from farmers and ranchers again and again: Without UF/IFAS, I wouldn’t be in business.
Florida’s economy is powered by science, from the Space Coast to the cancer centers to the restoration of the Everglades. What makes the state’s investment in agricultural science so important is its direct and immediate impact on the state’s second largest industry (and largest until tourism recovers).
Our 47,000 farms succeed through innovation supplied by UF/IFAS scientists: labor-saving mechanization, techniques that lower farmers’ water and fertilizer bills, and new better-tasting and easier-to-grow varieties of fruits and vegetables.