Florida Citrus Mutual CEO and Executive Vice President Matt Joyner stressed the need to continue providing money for research ...
FLORIDA, USA — Oranges are so engrained ... pointing to an exhausting battle with citrus greening disease and damage on its trees caused by hurricanes Irma in 2017, Ian in 2022 and Milton ...
Alico, a major supplier for Tropicana said they won’t invest more money on citrus operations in Florida after the current ... investments in land, trees and citrus disease treatments, and ...
Fred Gmitter, a geneticist at the University of Florida ... “Our citrus production has declined approximately 73% over the last 10 years, despite significant investments in land, trees and ...
Once standing at 18 feet tall and requiring ladders for harvest – the citrus trees are now barely half that height and ...
For at least two decades, citrus trees in Florida have been infected with greening disease, which attacks their vascular systems. The disease is spread primarily by insects called psyllids and ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — A major grower said this week it was abandoning its citrus growing operations, reflecting the headwinds Florida's signature crops are facing following a series of hurricanes and ...
Ian in 2022 and Milton in 2024 on trees already weakened from years of citrus greening disease "has led Alico to conclude that growing citrus is no longer economically viable for us in Florida ...