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Florida Florida's famous orange groves may soon disappear “Losing the citrus industry is not an option. This industry is ... so ingrained in Florida.
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 ...
An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help provide the nation with renewable energy.
The industry has since been in steep decline since 2005, when an itty-bitty insect, the Asian Citrus Psyllid, started to spread a disease known as Citrus Greening throughout Florida's famed groves.
The heart of Florida's economy isn't Disney World or beaches. It's citrus, but a shortage is straining the supply and causing prices to skyrocket.
Canines have demonstrated the ability to sniff out plant diseases, and some hope they will be the heroes to vanquish this citrus-destroying foe.
The last citrus groves in Martin County? They soon soon could go the way of the dinosaur, says Rick Hartman. Hartman is a commercial real estate broker whose family moved here in the 1880s and who ...
More than 150,000 acres of citrus land has been abandoned in the past 20 years, and much of it continues to sit fallow. But in Indiantown and elsewhere along the Treause Coast, new crops, and new ...
The section of U.S. 27 in this part of Florida has changed from a rural, high-speed corridor flanked by citrus groves to a nearly nonstop stretch of subdivisions, shopping centers and traffic lights.
Today, citrus greening has been found in all 32 citrus-producing counties in Florida and is racing across most of the state’s 554,000 acres of groves.