Brett Sellers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor - Agronomy

Discipline Specialization

Extension Focus

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.

Research Focus

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.

Contact Information

3401 Experiment Station
Ona, FL 33865
Phone: (863) 735-1314 extension #210
FaX: (863) 735-1930
Email: sellersb@ufl.edu
http://rcrec-ona.ifas.ufl.edu/bs0.html