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Citrus greening is a disease with no known cure that has infected nearly every citrus grove. It first cropped up 20 years ago ...
Citrus groves in Florida, which covered more than 832,00 acres (336,698 hectares) at the turn of the century, populated scarcely 275,000 acres (111,288 hectares) last year, ...
And now new numbers show just how detrimental it really is; the state's citrus production is down nearly 90%. To put this into perspective, Florida produced 244 million boxes of oranges and 50 ...
Fred Gmitter, a geneticist at the University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center, holds an orange affected by citrus greening disease at a grove in Fort Meade, Fla., on Sept. 27, 2018 ...
Pointing to Florida’s decades-long fight with deadly citrus greening disease and damage from hurricanes, a major grower announces it will “wind down” operations.
Citrus groves, which covered more than 832,00 acres in Florida at the turn of the century, populated scarcely 275,000 acres last year, and California has eclipsed Florida as the nation’s leading ...
Citrus groves dropped their fruit with defeated thuds. Growers moved south to Central Florida’s warmth. Another extreme freeze from December 1894 to February 1895 pushed out the stragglers.
Citrus groves in Florida, which covered more than 832,00 acres (336,698 hectares) at the turn of the century, populated scarcely 275,000 acres (111,288 hectares) last year, and California has ...
VERO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Here in Florida, Citrus Greening Disease has devastated the state's iconic citrus industry for years. Over the last few decades, the bacterial disease has been getting ...
Citrus groves in Florida, which covered more than 832,00 acres (336,698 hectares) at the turn of the century, populated scarcely 275,000 acres (111,288 hectares) last year, ...