A veteran of agricultural publishing, Tighe spent 26 years with Vance Publishing Corp., the last five of which […]
Gov. Charlie Crist announced the following reappointments and appointments to the Florida Citrus Commission. The appointees still have […]
Stephen Lapointe, an entomologist with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) at the agency’s U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory in […]
In the coming months, Florida Grower’s Citrus Achievement Award winner Jerry Newlin will address important issues of the […]
Citrus tree acreage in Florida decreased to 576,577 acres in 2008, the lowest number of citrus-producing acres since […]
Florida’s citrus industry is fortunate to have two in-state breeding programs working on variety development and evaluation. There […]
Florida Citrus Mutual’s sixth annual conference in Bonita Springs was another success, as growers, academia, and allied industry […]
The newly designed website for the Citrus Research and Development Foundation is now live at www.citrusrdf.org. This new […]
The leadership of Florida Citrus Mutual endorsed federal legislation intended to help the Florida citrus industry battle invasive […]
The USDA released its final orange forecast for the 2009-2010 season showing no change to the 133.6 million […]
Since being discovered near Homestead in September 2005, greening has spread into all commercial citrus producing counties in […]
If there was a resounding theme at the sixth Florida Citrus Mutual Annual Conference, it was — Cooperation. […]
Traditionally, if a new citrus selection appeared to have promise, it would be propagated onto numerous rootstocks and […]
In the coming months, Florida Grower’s Citrus Achievement Award winner Jerry Newlin will address important issues of the […]
According to reports from the Florida Department of Agricultural and Consumer Services (FDACS), a Mediterranean fruit fly was discovered in […]
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is issuing an interim rule announcing a plant quarantine in […]
During routine fruit fly monitoring, a trap containing suspect Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata, was collected in the […]
Florida’s largest citrus trade organization said recent actions by Gov. Charlie Crist display a lack of support for […]
The release of the National Academies’ report, “Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry: Addressing Citrus Greening Disease,” […]