citrus greening

Citrus groves are shrinking from disease, disasters and real estate development. The orange harvest is in a 30-year decline. Growers are using anti-bacterial injections and screenhouses to fight citrus greening as they look to diversify. For the farmer running a family-owned operation, it also feels like the end of an era. “People like myself, I'm almost 60, we're retiring or dying, and that knowledge is being lost with us,” said owner Steve Crump.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week reported that the industry is entering the 2025-2026 growing season with 208,183 acres in use for producing oranges, grapefruit and specialty fruits, 24 percent fewer acres than a year ago.

Fort Myers-based Alico Inc.says citrus production has declined extensively because of citrus greening disease and hurricane damage.

As orange prices boom and crops plummet worldwide, scientists in Central Florida lead the search for citrus greening solutions with genetic engineering.

Florida's citrus production is expected to improve in the upcoming season compared to last year when twin hurricanes battered the state.

Nearly 20 years after citrus greening appeared in Florida, exhausted farmers and researchers struggle to survive a disease destroying the state’s quintessential crop.

Officials say the Donaldson tree could offer relief to citrus growers across the state whose latest crop was the lowest since World War II.

The owner of a commercial nursery has won a $1.2 million judgment against the Florida Department of Agriculture in the latest verdict against the state agency for destroying citrus trees in the 2000s during an attempt to stop the spread of costly tree diseases.

The state wants permission to use 50,000 pounds of clothianidin on citrus, including oranges, tangerines, lemons, limes and grapefruits, from now through the end of October.

Researchers at the University of Florida released a study this month in the journal Phytopathology , saying there's a way to more quickly and...

Environmental groups are raising concern about a proposal to expand the use of antibiotics against a disease that has crippled Florida’s iconic citrus…

Florida’s citrus industry got some dire news Tuesday from an organization that advises the federal government on science and technical matters.In a…