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For generations, harvest time in Florida has brought an army of migrants to pick crops by hand, but now, fewer people want jobs picking. It's sending labor costs up and sending farmers looking for new technology to help raise and harvest their crops. 

In the next year, the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences plans to build a 19,000-square-foot AI hub at the Gulf Coast Research Center in Tampa. The hub will be used to manufacture AI technology with around a $23 million budget.

Scientific partnerships between University of Florida and University of Georgia are vital to ending world hunger and creating a clean energy economy.

City-grown food could supplement traditional rural large-acreage ag.

We can protect our springs and have viable agriculture in Florida.

Management efforts like that of the UF government-university team has helped the bird come back from the brink of extinction.

Constant monitoring by UF researchers, state and federal wildlife and water management officials, is helping an endangered curly-beaked bird rebound.

Captain McCain embodies a community’s embrace of science and scientists’ embrace of the experts who live in local communities.

Through a partnership between the University of Florida and state government, the endangered Everglades snail kite is making a comeback, writes the University of Florida’s senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources.

The University of Florida's research on the small bird could help protect something you do care about — bass, if you’re a fisher, ducks if you’re a hunter, air boat tours if you’re a visitor or business owner or employee, and tax dollars if you’re a Floridian who benefits from the economic activity a healthy home for the snail kite generates.