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'We’ve dropped nearly 90% in production': Florida citrus growers asking for help to save industry
Urgent plea from Florida’s citrus growers this week, as they urged state lawmakers to take action and restore what was once ...
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Florida citrus growers seek help from lawmakers to help ailing industry
Florida Citrus Mutual CEO and Executive Vice President Matt Joyner stressed the need to continue providing money for research ...
Florida citrus growers turning to lawmakers
FOX 13’s Mariah Harrison has a look at the latest push from Florida’s citrus growers for help from the state to save the ...
Citrus growers seek solutions from lawmakers as industry declines
At its peak in 1998, Florida’s citrus industry covered 860,000 acres, producing 244 million boxes of oranges and 50 million ...
Florida’s citrus outlook remains bleak. But new science offers hope
Florida orange growers are bracing for yet another record-low harvest as climate challenges and diseased trees continue to ...
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Florida Delegation Unites Around Franklin, Wasserman Schultz to Help Citrus Growers
Representatives Scott Franklin (R-FL) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) have reintroduced their bipartisan legislation, the Defending Domestic Orange Juice Pr ...
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UF researchers make new attempts to combat the disease damaging Florida’s citrus
Once standing at 18 feet tall and requiring ladders for harvest – the citrus trees are now barely half that height and ...
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Major Florida grower to end citrus operations after years of hurricanes and tree disease
A major grower said it was abandoning its citrus growing operations, reflecting the headwinds Florida’s signature crops are ...
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What's at risk for Florida in the US-Canada trade tensions? Citrus and sightseers
South Florida doesn't do a lot of import and export with Canada, but more than 1 million Canadian tourists visit the region ...