SAF Senior Lobbyist Joe Bischoff, Ph.D. (far right), worked on Capitol Hill and with USDA leaders to secure the full release of Floriculture and...
Scott Blumenthal, general manager of Chrysal in Doral, Florida (left), and SAF President & Chair Oscar Fernandez, director of sales for Rio...
Stress has been top-of-mind ever since COVID hit. But you can take another opportunity to highlight the role that flowers play in reducing stress...
As the Biden-Harris Administration moves forward with its legislative and regulatory agenda, the Society of American Florists is making sure...
Beloved floriculture professor, Harold F. Wilkins, Ph.D., who received the Society of American Florists’ Alex Laurie Award recognizing lifetime...
Looking for a lighter headline to share on your social media pages? A buzzed about new book by a pair of scientists argues that friendliness is the...
British consumers proactively looking for a cure to this year’s bout of winter blues received a hot tip from the Metro publication: Buy flowers....
Floral industry members hear about the positive effects of flowers on customers’ lives all the time:“They brightened my day! They made me feel...
Want to influence how federal research dollars are spent on Consumer Horticulture? It’s simple. Volunteer to be a reviewer of Specialty Crop...
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has invited SAF to represent the floral industry at a workshop...
SAF, along with other agricultural groups, has given its support to an effort by Sen. Bob Menedez (D-NJ) who is pressing for increased funding for...
On April 12, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX) released his draft text of the 2018 Farm Bill. The Chairman intends to...
Because members of SAF met and educated their members of Congress during SAF’s Congressional Action Days, Congress has included significant support...
As noted in the March 31, 2017 Week In Review, funding for the Floriculture and Nursery Research Initiative (FNRI) was increased after SAF’s 2017...
Do you have some customers who truly, madly, deeply love their plants? (Ever been known to chat to flowers and plants yourself?) New research...