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Range Cattle Research & Education Center

Range Cattle Research & Education Center

Professor and Center Director, Agronomy - Pasture and Rangeland Weed Management

Administration Focus (50%)

  • Research Focus (25%)

    Weed management in pastures and rangeland

    • Identify problematic weeds in pastures and rangeland and implement economically and
      environmentally sound control measures.
    • Examine weed biology and ecology as related to pasture and rangeland management strategies.
    • Weed control in fence rows and pasture borders.

    Invasive weed management

    • Identification of invasive weeds and management strategies, which includes cultural,
      herbicidal, and biological control methodologies.
    • Biology of invasive plant species.
  • Extension Focus (25%)

    Educate cattle ranchers and ranchette owners on cost effective weed
    control strategies for weed control in pastures and rangeland

    • Evaluate economically relevant weed control programs, which optimize forage production.
    • Identify cost effective weed control programs for forage grasses such as bahiagrass,
      limpograss, bermudagrass and other commonly grown forages.
    • Identify grazing and fertility management systems that promote forage growth and suppress
      weed emergence and establishment.

Brent Sellers

Contact

3401 Experiment Station
Ona, FL 33865
Phone: (863) 374-7048
sellersb@ufl.edu

  • Education
    • Ph.D. University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, Department of Agronomy, Weed Science, 2003.
    • M.S. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Weed Science, 1999.
    • B. S. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Biological Sciences, 1995.
  • Employment
    • Professor and Center Director, Range Cattle
      Research and Education Center, Ona, FL
      University of Florida, April 2020 to present
    • Professor and Interim Center Director, Range Cattle
      Research and Education Center, Ona, FL
      University of Florida, April 2019 - April 2020
    • Professor and Associate Center Director, Range Cattle
      Research and Education Center, Ona, FL 
      University of Florida, July 2017 - March 2019
    • Associate Professor and Associate Center Director, Range Cattle
      Research and Education Center, Ona, FL 
      University of Florida, 2014 - July 2017
    • Associate Professor, Range Cattle Research and Education Center, Ona, FL 
      University of Florida, 2011 - 2014.
    • Assistant Professor, Range Cattle Research and Education Center, Ona, FL 
      University of Florida, 2004-2011.
    • Post Doctoral Fellow, Agronomy Department, Columbia, MO 
      University of Missouri, 2003-2004.
    • Research Specialist, Agronomy Department, Columbia, MO 
      University of Missouri, 2002-2003
  • Membership in Professional Societies
    • American Society of Agronomy
    • Florida Cattlemen's Association
    • Florida Weed Science Society
    • Southern Weed Science Society
    • Weed Science Society of America
  • Publications
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