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My name is Chet Townsend. I live near LaBelle, Florida and work in the Florida Citrus Industry. 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 25 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.

An exciting new tool for Florida Citrus Growers and Production Managers is being developed. It's called Decision Information Systems for Citrus -- DISC -- check it out!

The International Society for Citriculture

• The ninth meeting of the International Society for Citriculture will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA in December, 2000. Join now to receive all the mailings. To subscribe to a mailing list for meeting notices and other ISC2000 Congress information, send an email message to isc2000e-mail-request@tangelo.lal.ufl.edu with "SUBSCRIBE" in the message body. (You can be removed from the list, at any time, by sending a similar message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the body.)

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Weather

• Agriculture must keep abreast with the current weather.
• For weather links, go to The Ultimate Citrus Page Weather Page.
• Check out the weather in Florida: Tampa Radar, Melburne Radar, Miami Radar, the Florida Regional Composite Radar, and the S.E Satellite Map,
  • Ft. Myers Radar - from WBBH-TV
  • Orlando Dopper Radar - from WFTV-TV9
  • StormWatch Map for SE & Florida Counties
• 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.
• American Weather Concepts -- South Florida QuickCast -- QuickCast Map
• EarthWatch Weather on Command - Great 3-D images and StormWatch Map with current warnings StormWatch Map for SE & Florida Counties
• Calculate Sunrise and Sunset for your area.

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Agriculture

• Check out this link to some excellent agricultural resources at the University of Florida's AgriGator page.
• The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, IFAS, is also a good site to check out. And the Florida Agricultural Information Retrival Sysytem -- FAIRS.
• 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 Dr. Fedro Zazueta's Home Page.
• 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
• 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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Some of my other favorite sites:

• Dilbert comic strip.
• 123 Greetings - Send your friend an online greeting card
• Search: SavvySearch, Yahoo Search, Lycos Search, Starting Point, and Web Crawler.
• Make your own airline reservations at Travelocity by Sabre.
• Naples Free-Net -another site to visit to learn more about Collier County.
• Burnette & Associates
• Check out Rush Limbough's new web site for his ties, Rushties.
• Tom Fasulo's "I Hate Computers" Newsletter
• I like to stay current with new technological advances in computers and software. One good area is InteractiveAge. For other online computer magazines, check out Techweb.
• The Tampa Tribune and the Polk County section.
• CNN Custom News

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Here are the web sites that I created or currently maintain:

• The Ultimate Citrus Page
  • The History of The Ultimate Citrus Page
• Citrus Administrative Committee
• Citrus Industry Magazine
• The Story of Florida Orange Juice - From the Grove to Your Glass
• Florida Science Source
• AMS Engineering and Environmental
• Gulf Citrus Growers Association
• Burnette & Associates
• Decision Information Systems for Citrus -- DISC
  • Technology for Sustainable Agriculture

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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