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UF report: Florida dairy farmers made more on milk, spent more on feed in 2007

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Wholesale prices for Florida milk hit an all-time high in 2007, but dairy farmers’ potential profits were reduced by skyrocketing feed costs, according to a University of Florida report issued this month.

Filed under Agriculture, Business, Florida, Research on Wednesday, July 30, 2008.

Florida consumer confidence rises as residents look to the future

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consumer confidence among Floridians rose one point to 60 in July from its revised index and all-time low record in June, signaling that state residents may be looking ahead to when the housing market picks up, a new University of Florida study finds.

Filed under Business, Florida, Research on Tuesday, July 29, 2008.

Research shows contraception could control problem parakeets

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When monk parakeets began to infiltrate the United States in the 1960s, some feared they would ravage farm crops as they often had in their native South America.

Filed under Environment, Florida, Research on Tuesday, July 8, 2008.

Florida’s rental markets latest to suffer ill effects in housing crunch

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The spread of “For Rent” signs is the latest bad news as Florida’s real estate market declines in all forms of rentals, a new University of Florida study finds.

Filed under Business, Florida, Research on Monday, July 7, 2008.