UF/IFAS Okeechobee County Extension Service

Local Extension Newsletters

The office produces periodic newsletters of interest to local residents.  Visit our other pages for for links to other state-wide commodity newsletters.  You can click on the title or date below to view the latest issues produced by University of Florida and Okeechobee County Extension Staff.

Okeechobee 4-H Newsletter      September 2006    October 2006

News for county 4-H volunteers and 4- H Club members.

 Archived 4-H newsletters: 

Okeechobee Livestock Newsletter    News for beef and dairy producers - Click here to go to South Florida Beef Forage Program Newsletter page and scroll down to Okeechobee County.

Treasure Coast Citrus Notes  

This newsletter (almost monthly) is produced by Multi-County Citrus Extension Agent Jack Hebb for Citrus producers in the Indian River Citrus area, which includes Okeechobee County.    Click here to go to the latest issue of this newsletter.  

For other regional and state-wide Citrus newsletters, click here.

Okeechobee Pest Alert   

Periodic  updates are provided on-line about pests effecting local nursery producers and landscape managers.    Click here to go to the latest information.  

Limited Archived copies of the Treasure Coast Pest Alert are available: October/November 2003    April 2004

South Florida Wetlands   Mark Clark and Mitch Flinchum, Co-Editors    A periodic newsletter of the UF/IFAS Lake Okeechobee Program to foster communication among team members of the UF/IFAS Lake Okeechobee Protection Program and selected allies in an effort to keep us all on  the same page.  

South Florida Wetlands - June  2006	South Florida Wetlands - June  2005  (pdf document)
South Florida Wetlands - March  2006	South Florida Wetlands -  March 2005  (pdf document)
South Florida Wetlands - September 2005  (pdf document)	The Same Page   March 2003

To sign up for any of these newsletters, call the Okeechobee County Extension office at 863-763-6469 or send us an email: Okeechobee@ifas.ufl.edu  The Florida Cooperative Extension Service - Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer authorized to provide research, educational information, and other services to individuals and institutions that function without regard to race, color, sex, age, handicap, or national origin.  Florida Cooperative Extension Service / IFAS / University of Florida.  Larry A.  Arrington, Dean.