Nan tours UF's Tropical Research and Education Center
Featured Pic: Nan with UF President Bernie Machen

On Tuesday, August
18th, Delegation Members took part in a tour of the University of Florida's
Tropical Research and Education Center (TREC) in Homestead with University
President Bernie Machen. The TREC is part of UF's Institute of Food and
Agriculture Science. The goal of the tour and subsequent meeting was to bring
attention the research being performed at the TREC and highlight the need for
University resources to improve the facility.
Here is a link to the TREC
website, please visit and see the work being done at the facility, http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu/
Senator Nan Rich, Representative
Julio Robaina, and Representative Luis Garcia, along with several regional
agricultural experts spoke about the TREC’s potential as a world class research
center - one that could bring jobs and economic development to Miami-Dade County
and South Florida.
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