Florida Trip

     Nine students and three faculty had the opportunity to travel to Tampa, Florida this semester. The students presented their research findings from their Mentored Student Research projects conducted this year. The theme of the conference was “Managing Global Resources for a Secure Future.” Some students got to enter a competition held by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. Brad Davis was awarded 2nd place out of 62 students and Chase Wilcox also received a 2nd place award in a separate session.

​             After the conference, the students toured citrus and fruit production farms, ranches, and horticulture nurseries in central Florida. Ag Reserves Inc. was included in the tour. Students learned about citrus and about the disease citrus greening, which is causing a lot of damage to citrus crops in Florida.
            Student and faculty also got to tour Deseret Cattle and Citrus. The Ranch is the largest cow-calf operation in the United States. Part of the tour of Deseret Cattle and Citrus, the students and faculty took an air boat ride of some of the Ranch. Parts of the ranch are only accessible by boat.
            Disney Nurseries at Disney World, Orlando, FL was the next stop on the trip. Disney seeks for interns to take part of a six-month internship experience below is how to apply, they are always interested in interns from BYUI. Student and faculty toured The Land exhibit at Epcot Them Park at Disney World, Orlando, FL. Several BYU-Idaho students have interned at the exhibit and a few have stayed on and worked full time after their internship experiences. The tour continued to various parts of the Disney World Theme Parks and they even had extra time to enjoy a few rides!