Plant Nutrient Oversight Committee Purpose, Structure, and Role
Purpose: Provide standing authority to define and maintain the internal consistency and scientific integrity of IFAS nutrient management recommendations for Florida agricultural and horticultural crops.
Structure:
- Authority comes from UF/IFAS SVP, delegated to the Deans for Research and Extension as Co-Chairs.
- Core PNOC consists of 13 members, roughly half IFAS Administrators and half senior faculty with a nutrient management background.
- PNOC meets as needed to conduct business using a hybrid in-person and Zoom format.
- Sub-committees composed of nutrient management research/extension faculty will develop specific IFAS nutrient recommendations and management systems.
Role:
- Prioritize commodities and associated nutrients that require IFAS nutrient management recommendation changes.
- Define the standard format for an IFAS nutrient management recommendation.
- Develop a standard process for faculty to follow when updating IFAS recommendations.
- Set criteria that faculty must meet to change an IFAS recommendation.
- Evaluate faculty proposals to change IFAS recommendations, and vote to approve, return for revision, or deny.
- Engage stakeholders in two-way communication about PNOC activities.
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PNOC Membership
Administrators
Name Rank Location Notes Rob Gilbert Dean/Professor
Campus
Co-chair
Dean/Professor
Campus
Co-chair
Associate Dean/Professor
Campus
ANR Ext Prog Leader
Associate Dean/Professor
Campus
Water Mgt
Agronomy Chair/Professor
Campus
Agron rep
Horticultural Sciences Chair/Professor
Campus
Hort Sci rep
District Dir Ext/Professor
Campus
Nutr Mgt
Everglades REC Dir/Professor
EREC
REC rep, Nutr Mgt
Faculty
Name Rank Location Notes Professor
Campus
Nutr Mgt
Professor
SWFREC
Water/Nutr Mgt
Professor
Campus
Water/Nutr Mgt
Associate Professor
NFREC
Nutr Mgt
Associate Professor/ Coordinator of UF/IFAS Agricultural Nutrient Management Research
Campus
Nutr Mgt
Associate Dir, Florida Ag. Experiment Station
Campus
Scribe
- PNOC Meeting 19 October 2022
- PNOC Meeting 13 February 2023
- PNOC Meeting 3 May 2023
- PNOC Meeting 13 Sep 2023
- PNOC Meeting 30 Jan 2024
- PNOC Meeting 5 Sep 2024
- PNOC Meeting 14 Jan 2025
- PNOC Meeting 1 May 2025
- PNOC Meeting 3 Sep 2025
- PNOC Meeting 4 Nov 2025
- PNOC Meeting 1 Dec 2025