Over the last 20 years, production in Florida orange groves has plummeted 92%, according to the U.S. Department of ...

The remaining $10 million slotted for the citrus industry will help the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services offer cost-sharing so citrus packinghouses can buy or refurbish ...

The shields remain on the trees for years. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) Those catastrophes contributed to a 90% decline in ...

With the citrus industry at a crossroads, growers are looking for any solution to cope with the deadly citrus greening ...

John Barben is a fourth-generation Florida citrus grower and vice president of Barben Fruit Company. He is also a board ...

Do you have a green thumb? Maybe you’re interested in growing something that will blossom in your yard. The spring gardening season is a […] ...

Orange juice consumption has plummeted over 50% since 2000, with Florida’s orange crop facing a 30% decline for the 2024-2025 season, new data shows.

Florida orange production has fallen by some 90% in the past two decades in large part due to citrus greening, but growers ...

an entomology professor at the University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences' Citrus Research and Education Center. It could be at least three years before bug-resistant trees ...

A tree that loses branches and foliage in a ... says.A bug-free treeA whole ecosystem of businesses dependent on Florida citrus is at risk if the crops fail, including 33,000 full-time and part ...

Florida expanded by more than 467,000 people ... The process involves inserting a gene into a citrus tree that produces a protein that can kill baby Asian citrus psyllids by making holes in ...