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Trees and Hurricanes program
Miami-Dade County Extension will be presenting a workshop entitled "Trees and Hurricanes" on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm. The subjects covered will be pruning principles, hurricanes season outlook, how to avoid accidents, and outside demonstrations. CEU's will be given. Registrations is $15 to cover lunch, refreshments, and handouts. Call Patty at (305) 248-3311 x 225 to reserve your place at the workshop by Monday, June 30, 2008..
8:30 am – Registration.
9:00 am – Benefits of Trees. Principles of Correct Pruning –
Henry Mayer, Miami-Dade County Extension Office
10:00 am – Outlook for 2008 Hurricane Season. Rusty Pfost - National Weather Service.
10:45 am – Chain Saw Safety and How to Avoid Accidents.
Angie Addison. Territory Manager of STIHL South east, Inc.
11:15 am – Trees in the Urban Environment.
Soil Volumes and Hurricanes.
Are We Learning the Lesson?
Jimmy Socash, JFS Design, Inc.
12:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 pm – Demonstration Outside
Brennan’s Tree Service and A Little Tree Service, Bob Brennan and Pierre Sands.
Pro Tree Care, Inc., Jorge Rivera
FPL, Chris Halsey
Stihl Southeast, Inc.
3:00 pm – Adjourn and Completion of CEU forms.
CEUs applied for: ISA, FNGLA and FDACS
Registration $15.00
(Includes UF publications, coffee, pastries and lunch)
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Crop Disaster Program
2005-2007
A new crop disaster program was announced on
Oct 15, 2007, called Crop Disaster Program 2005-2007. This program is for those growers who had signed up for NAP coverage during 2005, '06, or '07, and suffered a crop loss in one of those years due to a natural disaster. This program is seperate from the Non-Insured Crop Assistance Program, or the NAP program. You can contact the Farm Service Agency at (305) 242-1197 X 2, or visit this link (CLICK HERE) for more information.
UPDATE Jun 08 : This program is still open. Contact FSA to sign up.
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Publication of Florida tropical fruit nutritional analysis
in USDA newlsletter
In early 2007, the Agricultural Research Service at the USDA Citrus and Subtropical fruit crops laboratory in Winter Haven, FL conducted a study of the antioxidant properties of Florida tropical fruits. They discovered that several Florida tropical fruits are quite high in these cancer fighting properties. Their research was featured in the USDA newsletter, which you can read at this link:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/oct07/guava1007.htm
The full laboratory report is located on this website here: http://www.tropicalfruitgrowers.com/PDFs/TFAntioxicant-report.pdf
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WEATHER WEBSITES TO BOOKMARK These websites can help you to monitor local weather conditions for the upcoming winter season, and throughout the year.
UF-FAWN http://fawn.ifas.ufl.edu/
NWS geographical forecast page
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/ifps/mfl/GFE/ http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/
NWS zone forecast http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/textversion/state/fl.html
NWS Miami-South Florida http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mfl/
NWS Interactive weather information http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/rbigmain.html
WWW.Miamiweather.info
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