Billie Rooney and her husband, Scott, run a 40-acre farm near Live Oak, where they grow blueberries, blackberries, and sunflowers and raise livestock. Farming is a second career for the Rooneys. So, they had a lot to learn.
She and hundreds of other farmers and ranchers across Florida can attest to the importance of lessons learned from any of the 150 or so annual field days hosted by the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS).
“We went from nothing to having a successful operation,” Billie Rooney said of what she learned at educational sessions at the North Florida Research and Education Center-Suwannee Valley (NFREC-SV)…