2015 April Issue - Indian River Citrus League
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2015 April Issue - Indian River Citrus League
River Ramblings T he new slett er of t he In dian Rive r C itru s L ea g ue APRIL 2015 Survey Says... Florida Citrus Show is a Value to Attendees By Frank Giles, Editor, Florida Grower Magazine The 2015 Florida Citrus Show scored well with attendees according to a post-event survey. About 800 people attended the event, reflecting its growing popularity among growers and the industry. The educational sessions again scored as the main driver for people choosing to attend. 86% of those surveyed ranked session topics as important or extremely important in their decision to attend. In addition, speakers scored well with 78% saying it was important or extremely important in decision to attend the Show. The ability to network with peers was another reason to attend the event noted in the survey. 67% of respondents said the Florida Citrus Show is important or extremely important in their ability to conduct their business. Attendees also said the trade show floor and exhibitors add value to the event. 67% scored the trade show as important or extremely important in their decision to attend the 2015 event. Stay tuned for more details on the 2016 Florida Citrus Show, and mark your calendars now for Jan. 27-28 for next year’s big event. For additional information, please contact Gerry Bogdon at 407/539-6552 x14. P2 P3, 5 & 6 Advertising Eight Great Opportunities Online Ways to Find the Latest Citrus Research P7 Board of Directors P8 2015 Miss Florida Citrus Chosen P10 Associate Members www.ircitrusleague.org 7925 20th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32966 FLORIDA’S LARGESTCITRUS CITRUS CROP CROP INSURANCE PROVIDER FLORIDA’S LARGEST INSURANCE PROVID ® MICRONUTRIENTS FOR CITRUS CITRUS MIX BLOOM SPRAY AP(ADVANCED PERFORMANCE) Order Today from CPS, Griffin Fertilizer, Triangle Chemical or call: 800-277-4950 Since 1973 ChemicalDynamics.com Your ad could be here... 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File Format • PDF files and InDesign files are preferred (collected output to include layout, linked pictures, embedded pictures, color profiles, screen fonts and printer fonts). • Other file formats accepted: eps (Adobe Illustrator) tif (Adobe Photoshop) jpg (Adobe Photoshop) page 2 www.ircitrusleague.org • 1/2 Page 8.5 inches across by 5.5 inches down $200/month $150/month w/ a monthly commitment through June • Full Page 8.5 inches across by 11 inches down $300/month $225/month w/ a monthly commitment through June •Bleed Please allow at least 1/8” bleed. Do not include printers marks. • Please email all advertising materials to [email protected] Eight Great Online Ways to Find the Latest Citrus Research By Dr. Steve Rogers, Ecostat, Inc. It’s getting harder to find information online about the increasingly complex techniques for managing citrus greening disease. (I wonder whether we fully appreciate how complicated the information access problem in our industry has become.) As one example of many, where do you go online if you want to find a simple answer about how a particular nutritional product works when used in combination with a particular insecticide? These kinds of answers should be available online in an easy-to-use-and-access format. Citrus will always be a face-to-face business, and you have to talk to people to stay current in markets and production methods. There’s also a lot of good (and bad) information online about citrus management. It’s not organized well across all sites, though. But here are several websites, search techniques and even an app (for Mac) that together help you find the most current in-progress and published research. These sites help you evaluate how reliable is the information you get from conversations, meetings, popular articles and field personnel. ScienceDirect at sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect is a full-text scientific database of journal articles and book chapters. It includes sources from around 2,500 journals and 26,000 books. Searching ScienceDirect will lead you to abstracts, from which you can purchase papers and publications. The information is high quality. One difference between ScienceDirect and Google Scholar (see below) is that ScienceDirect is a paid service while Google Scholar is free. continued on page 5 www.ircitrusleague.org page 3 & BACK! GET CASH EXTINGUISH FIRE ANTS Using Extinguish Fire Ant Baits can be big for your investment. ® When you purchase 100 lbs. or more of Extinguish® and/or Extinguish® Plus Fire Ant Baits, receive a $0.50-per-lb rebate! Valid on purchases made from January 1, 2015 – May 31, 2015*. ® Extinguish Professional Fire Ant Bait is for your bearing groves. It disrupts the normal growth and development of the fire ant colonies. When foraging worker ants take Extinguish® Fire Ant Bait to the queens, their ability to reproduce stops. 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Grower Rebate Mail completed form along with a copy of your invoice(s) to: Extinguish / Extinguish Plus Rebate Offer Central Life Sciences Attn: Nancy Stratinsky 1501 East Woodfield Rd., Suite 200 West Schaumburg, IL 60173 ® ® All rebate requests must be postmarked by June 30, 2015. Allow 6 – 8 weeks for processing. No resellers are eligible. Open to Florida citrus growers only. Program Dates: January 1 – May 31, 2015. Always read and follow label directions. Extinguish is a registered trademark of Wellmark International. ©2015 Wellmark International. continued from page 3 Science Daily at sciencedaily.com Science Daily is my secret weapon for ideas. It’s a great source for the latest research news across many subjects. Science Daily doesn’t usually lead you to research publications; rather it’s a science news source. The difference between Science Daily and other news sources, however, is that the quality of the news at Science Daily is better than other sites you commonly come across. This is because they harvest their reports using news from organizations such as the Entomological Society of America and other professional groups. Spend some time searching for topics at Science Daily. You’ll walk away with new ideas. Citrus Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) at citrusrdf.org The CRDF organizes and funds research related mostly to managing citrus greening. Its mission is to advance innovative disease and production research and product development to ensure the survival and competitiveness of Florida citrus growers. Their website provides in-progress research reports and information about upcoming projects. Their Quarterly Report Archive is a great resource for tracking important citrus projects as they are performed. Florida State Horticultural Society (FSHS) at fshs.org The FSHS has professional development resources, like job posting, newsletters and, of course, their Annual Proceedings. It also has a powerful search feature for all FSHS Proceedings dating back to 1888 http://fshs.org/category/proceedings/. One difference between the CRDF and the FSHS search engines is that CRDF presents in-progress research and FSHS presents published papers. Used together, the CRDF and FSHS sites are a good way to audit the value of research as it moves from theory to practice. FDOCGrower at fdocgrower.com The Florida Department of Citrus has economics, marketing and scientific research resources at fdocgrower.com. The Economic Research section under the dropdown tab of the same name, has information on imports, exports, processor reports and more. Their Marketing Research section contains Nielsen sales figures, and their Scientific Research section has information on processing and by-products. Visit their excellent site to see more information on a variety of topic related to the packing, processing and marketing of citrus. American Society for Horticultural Science at ashs.org You need to check out this site if you haven’t already. The ASHS has several publications, including HortScience, HortTechnology and the Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. All three resources are good for finding research papers about citrus. The difference between the ASHS and the CRDF is that ASHS includes all of horticulture. The scope of ASHS is global, whereas CRDF and FSHS focus primarily on Florida. Google Scholar Google Scholar searches across many academic publications and literature. It is a single-source venue for search across many disciplines and includes books, articles and abstracts. The sources originate from academic publishers, professional societies, universities and other web sites. Searching for “florida citrus rootstock”, for example, returns about 19,000 citations. The correct way to use this information is to narrow your search to focus in on your main topic. For example, adding the term, “us-897” to your initial query drops the number of results to about 61, which is more manageable. The difference between Google Scholar and regular Google is that Google Scholar biases toward authoritative information and shows few, if any, ads. DevonAgent Pro You probably gathered that searching all of the sites that could have information you’re looking for can get daunting. Well, there’s an app to solve that problem. It’s called DevonAgent Pro (Fig. 1). DevonAgent Pro is Mac only (I’ve used it for years), but you can configure a single search query to scrape all major and minor search engines at the same time. (One example setup I use is shown in Fig. 1.) DevonAgent Pro will then weed out all the junk based on criteria you provide, and then present its results in its own browser. The greatly speeds your ability to find information across a multitude of different websites. One difference between DevonAgent Pro continued on page 6 www.ircitrusleague.org page 5 Large Acreage Real Estate Specialists Focusing on Agricultural & Transitional Properties Throughout Florida W.C. “Boo” Graves Jeff Cusson, CCIM Broker Associate, Realtor Sales Associate, Realtor (772) 473-1677 (772) 473-8497 [email protected] [email protected] Parrish Grove Box Ranch Grove • Operating Citrus Grove • Orange, Valencia, Swingle • Orange, Hamlin, Swingle • Orange, Valencia-Carrizo 573 Acres Hammock Grove 160 Acres 510.53 Acres Alamo Grove 80 Acres • Grapefruit Marsh Seedless • Grapefruit Flame • • Specialty Tangerines Sunburst • Orange Navel • White grapefruit • Pineapple • Valencia Oranges Port Saint Lucie Grove Vero Beach Citrus Grove • Pineapples Oranges • Valencia Oranges • Hamlin • Pineapples Oranges • Valencia Oranges • Navel 473 Acres Oranges • Red Grapefruit • White Grapefruit 1023 Acres Oranges • Red Grapefruit • White Grapefruit continued from page 5 and Google Scholar is that DevonAgent Pro will source, for example, a search set similar to the 19,000 that Google would find. But DevonAgent Pro does that across several sites and then filters those many thousands of results to remove the bad references for you. Author disclaimer The information in this article is provided “as is”. The authors and publisher of this article disclaim any loss or liability, either directly or indirectly as a consequence of applying the information presented, or in regard to the use and application of any of this information, in whole or in part, for any purpose whatsoever. No guarantee is given, either expressed or implied, in regard to the merchantability, accuracy, or acceptability of the information. Dr. Steven Rogers is a well-known innovator of digital technologies in citrus and works with FSHS on their member website. Fig. 1. Search Set window in DevonAgent Pro. A Search Set in DevonAgent Pro can be configured to scour all major and minor search sources at once. This reduces the time spent on individual websites finding your information. The example shown is what I call, “Citrus Global”. page 6 www.ircitrusleague.org *Trial data is available upon request. ® Trials* have shown applications of patented OMRI-listed NutriSmart®-B "eco-fertilizer" on citrus groves: Replaced at least 25% of soil applied NPK producing equal or better yield and quality than G.S.P. Increased soil organic matter content by 25% or more Increased total soil nitrogen content by more than 18% Improved soil water-holding capacity by more than 25% Want to be NutriSmart, too? NutriSmart is a registered Trademark of CK Life Sciences. Performance Nutrition is a registered Trademark of LidoChem, Inc. Phone (732) 888-8000 Email: [email protected] www.pnfertilizers.com © 2013 LidoChem, Inc. Indian River Citrus League Board of Directors Rusty Banack Quality Fruit Packers of Indian River Glen Barnes, Jr. Barnes Citrus Alex Brown Southern Fulfillment Services W. Cody Estes Estes Citrus, Inc. J. Emmett Evans, III Evans Properties, Inc. Michael Garavaglia The Packers of Indian River Griffin Greene Greene River Packing, Inc. Tom Hammond Hammond Groves, Inc. George F. Hamner, Jr. Indian River Exchange Packers Ned Hogan Hogan and Sons, Inc. David Howard Graves Brothers Tom Jerkins Premier Citrus Scott Lambeth Golden River Fruit Co. Gregory P. Nelson Bernard Egan & Company Daniel R. Richey Riverfront Packing Co., LLC J. Brantley Schirard, Sr. Schirard Citrus, Inc. Daniel Scott Scott Citrus Management Robert G. Sexton Oslo Citrus Growers Association Trey Smith LeRoy Smith, Inc. Rusty Varn Varn Citrus www.ircitrusleague.org page 7 The Miss Florida Citrus Pageant [email protected] (561) 351-4314 Brenda Eubanks Burnette, Executive Director Brenda Eubanks Burnette, Executive Director 2015 MISS FLORIDA CITRUS CHOSEN [email protected] (561) 351-4314 Winter Haven, Fla. (March 21, 2015)—The first Miss Florida Citrus since 2004 was chosen at the Ritz Theatre in Winter Haven, Fla. on March 21, 2015. Continuing the tradition, Summer Foley, 17, of Ormond 2015 Miss Florida Citrus Chosen Beach, Fla. was crowned by the 2004 Miss Florida Citrus, Nikki Upthegrove Matthews, Saturday night during 2015 MISS FLORIDA CITRUS CHOSEN the Miss America preliminary pageant. She was21, sponsored by Florida’s Natural Growers and will go on to Winter Haven, FL March 2015 Winter Haven, Fla. (March 21, 2015)—The first Miss Florida CitrusJune since16-20, 2004 2015 was chosen at the Ritz The represent the industry in the Miss Florida Pageant, which takes place in St. Petersburg. The first Miss Florida Citrus since 2004 was chosen at the Ritz Theatre in Theatreof inthat Winter Haven, Fla. ontoMarch 21, America 2015. Continuing theSeptember. tradition, Summer Foley, 17, of Ormond winner pageant advances the Miss Pageant in Winter Haven, Fla. on March 21, 2015. Continuing the tradition, Summer Beach, was crowned by the Florida Nikki Upthegrove Foley, 17,Fla. of Ormond Beach, Fla.2004 was Miss crowned by Citrus, the 2004 Miss Florida Matthews, Saturday night during Citrus, Nikki Upthegrove Matthews, Saturday night during the Miss the Miss America preliminary pageant. was sponsored by Florida’s Natural Growers and will go on toHer Victoria Cowen, Miss Florida 2014 and She David Lang, of Regalia Magnificent Apparel, emceed the event. America preliminary pageant. She was sponsored by Florida’s Natural represent the will industry in the MissTaylor Florida Pageant, takesMiss placeFlorida June 16-20, 2015 in St. Ball, Petersburg. The court consisted ofgo 1ston runner-up, Pohl, fromwhich Wauchula, Fla.; 2nd runner-up, Danielle of Growers and to represent the industry in the Pageant, takes June 16-20, 2015America in St. Petersburg. winner winner which of that pageant advances to the Miss Pageant inThe September. Wellington, Fla.; 3rdplace runner-up, Anne-Marie Campbell, of West Palm Beach, Fla. and 4th runner-up, Keilany of that pageant advances to the Miss America Pageant in September. Francis, of Pembroke Pines, Fla. with Taylor Brown, of Avon Park, Fla. winning the non-finalist talent award. Victoria Cowen, Miss Florida 2014 and Victoria Cowen, Miss Florida 2014 andDavid DavidLang, Lang,ofofRegalia RegaliaMagnificent Magnificent Apparel, emceed the event. Her Apparel, emceed the event. Her court consisted of 1st runner-up, Taylor court consisted of 1st runner-up, Taylor Pohl, from Wauchula,talent, Fla.; 2nd runner-up, Ball, of Judging included personal interview, evening and swimsuit, Danielle along with an on-stage Pohl, fromcriteria Wauchula, Fla.; a2nd runner-up, Danielle Ball,gown, of Wellington, Fla.; 3rdWellington, runner-up, Anne-Marie Campbell, of West Palm Beach, Fla.Palm andBeach, 4th 3rd runner-up, Anne-Marie Campbell, of West 4th runner-up, question. AsFla.; Miss Florida Citrus, she will receive a $1,000 Scholarship, a $350Fla. giftand certificate towardsKeilany a runner-up, Keilany Francis, of Pembroke Pines, Fla. with Taylor Brown, of Francis,gown of Pembroke Fla. with Taylor Brown, of 2015 AvonMiss Park,Florida Fla. winning thean non-finalist talent award. $1,000 purchasePines, at Regalia Gowns, entry into the Pageant, official Miss America Avon Park, Fla. winning the non-finalist talent award. crown criteria and trophy and various other prizes. In addition, willtalent, travel the Judging included a personal interview, evening she gown, andstate representing the Florida citrus swimsuit, with an on-stage question. As Miss Florida Citrus, Judging along criteria included a personal interview, evening gown, talent,she andwill swimsuit, along with an on-stage industry at various speaking engagements and functions. receive a $1,000 Scholarship, a $350 gift certificate towards a $1,000 gown purchase at Regalia Gowns, question. 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The more Miss information America Organization is one of the nation’s leading and one of the world’s For or to schedule Miss Florida Citrus for anachievement appearance, programs please contact Executive Director, Forlargest more information or to schedule Miss Florida Citrus Last for an appearance, pleaseOrganization contact Executive scholarship assistance for or young women. year, the Miss America and its Brenda provider Eubanksof Burnette at (561) 351-4314 [email protected]. Director, Brenda Eubanks Burnette at (561) 351-4314 or [email protected]. state and local organizations made available millions in cash and scholarship assistance. For more information or to schedule Miss Florida for an appearance, please contact Executive Director, 806 Windermere Way,Citrus Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418 Brenda Eubanks Burnette at (561) 351-4314 or [email protected]. page 8 www.ircitrusleague.org Family Owned & Operated Proud Members of the Indian River Citrus League Serving Florida’s Agriculture Industry with Quality Fuels & Lubricants for 50 Years! All-Wheel Drive Tank Wagon Truck Available for Grove Deliveries Diesel Fuel & Gasoline * Quality Lubricants * Environmentally Friendly & Renewable Fuels & Lubricants 877-811-FUEL www.ssipetro.com 24-Hour Emergency Service Professional Aerial Application Serving the Florida Citrus Industry for 60 Years We are available when you need us. Customer Service is our #1 Priority. Chief Pilot, David Ray 772 772-- 461 461-- 8924 * 1 1-- 800 800-- 441 441-- 2964 * [email protected] associate members AgFirst Farm Credit Bank Aglime Sales Agricultural Services International, Inc. AgroSource, Inc. 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Getting Involved. membership opportunities Our Associate Membership provides opportunities to network with existing customers and potential customers by providing opportunities to sponsor events scheduled throughout the year. Their partnership with our organization is important to us. If interested in joining our organization, please contact the League office for further details.