The University of Florida is a public land-grant university in Gainesville, Florida. It dates its history to 1853, and its Common Data Set reports 57,401 students in fall 2025.
Agriculture sits within the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), which combines teaching through the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), research through the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station and UF/IFAS Extension programmes in every Florida county. CALS says it offers more than 20 undergraduate majors and that UF/IFAS has 12 Research and Education Centers in 20 locations across Florida. UF/IFAS lists further research and demonstration sites, a research forest and an 850-acre dairy farm. In April 2026 UF/IFAS announced an Office of Strategic Partnerships & Innovation, opening on 15 May, to support public-private partnerships, faculty entrepreneurship and the commercialisation of its agricultural research.