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My name is Chet Townsend. I live near LaBelle, FL and work in the Florida Citrus Industry and am an Irrigation Agronomist working with AquaSpy Inc. I am the webmaster and owner of UltimateCitrus.com. I have been involved with producing, harvesting, selling, and promoting the best 100% Pure Florida Orange Juice for over 32 years . . . . .

The Real OJ!

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Quick Index of this Page:

• Florida Citrus - or go directly to The Ultimate Citrus Page.
• Weather - The Ultimate Citrus Page Weather Page
• Agriculture
  • Did you know that the use of Crop Protection Chemicals in American Agriculture is actually Environmentally Friendly?
• Web Sites that I Maintain - a complete list of the web sites that I currently maintain.
• Other Citrus Growers on the Web
• University of Florida Index
• Other Favorite Sites

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A Few of My Favorite Areas of Interest:

Florida Citrus

Learn more about the Florida Citrus Industry at my world famous citrus page,
Don't leave without checking it out!

The Story of Florida Orange Juice - From the Grove to Your Glass - This web page describes, with pictures, how Florida oranges are harvested and processed into 100% pure Florida orange juice.

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Weather

• Agriculture must keep abreast with the current weather.
• For weather links, go to The Ultimate Citrus Page Weather Page.
• FAWN - Florida Automated Weather Network - Online weather data updated every 15 minutes from several sites around Florida.
• Agricultural Weather Information Service, Inc., AWIS.. For those already with an AWIS subscription, go directly to the Ag Weather Information for Florida Page.

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Agriculture

• The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, IFAS, is also a good site to check out.
• Visit the Southwest Florida Research & Education Center in Immokalee, FL and their Citrus Horticultural Page.
• Also, visit the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida.
• The Florida State Horticultural Society
• Visit the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department.
• Visit the Florida Farm Bureau home page.
• The American Farm Bureau has a new home page.
• The American Farmland Trust now has a new location. Also visit Farmland Information Library and Grassfarmer.com
• Visit the Old Farmer's Almanac.
• Also check out Agriculture Online.
• Oklahoma Cooperative Extension's Guide to Agriclturual Web Sites
• MSDS Sheets - http://hazard.com/msds/
• Chemically Speaking - http://gnv.ifas.ufl.edu/~foodweb/news.htm
• The International Society for Citriculture
• Please read Technology for Sustainable Agriculture, by Chet Townsend

Did you know that the use of Crop Protection Chemicals in American Agriculture is actually Environmentally Friendly?

- With the world population growing exponentially, the only way the Farmer will be able to feed the world is with the use of good crop protection chemicals. With insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides, the American Farmer is the most land efficient farmer in the world. Farmers can grow three to four times as much safe food on an acre of land as he could just 75 years ago. If the Farmer were to lose all of our crop protection chemicals, the world would have to increase the amount of land farmed by four times. That means clearing up more land, including wetlands and rain forests. With ever growing populations to feed, we must continue to farm effeciently to produce an abundant amount of safe food for everyone.

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Other Citrus Growers on the Web

• Arapaho Citrus Management
• Florida Citrus Growers on the Web

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University of Florida Sites:

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• The Fighting Gators.... #1 in College Football and the 1996 National Champions!  Visit the University Athletic Association! and Gatorzone.com
• The College of Agriculture
• The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences -- IFAS
• The AgriGator - an excellent Agriculture link page!
• The Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department
• The Decision Information Systems for Citus -- DISC
• The Florida Agricultural Information Retrival Sysytem -- FAIRS
• The Horticultural Sciences Department
• The Southwest Florida Research & Education Center in Immokalee, FL

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Here are the web sites that I currently maintain:

• The Ultimate Citrus Page
  • The History of The Ultimate Citrus Page
• The Story of Florida Orange Juice - From the Grove to Your Glass
• Florida Science Source

Thanks for visiting.

Get in touch with me at chet@ultimatecitrus.com

"Drink more Florida Orange Juice, Eat More Grapefruit and keep our World healthy and strong!"

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