Fresh from bagging pythons in the Everglades, then meeting with sugar growers in Clewiston, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture ...

USDA announced $675.9 million in disaster aid to Florida farmers for hurricane damage, as part of a $30 billion relief effort ...

Battered by hurricanes, disease and expenses, Florida citrus growers get a $675 million federal lifeline to help them through ...

Much of the federal grants will go to help citrus growers recover from recent hurricanes and fight pests damaging fruit.

USDA is unleashing over a half billion dollars in further aid to Florida growers and businesses in the aftermath of ...

Florida’s citrus industry has been impacted by a perfect storm of impacts with production levels not seen since before World ...

Specialty crops ended the 2023-2024 season at 450,000 boxes. Florida Citrus Mutual said that the industry, at its peak, produced 244 million boxes of oranges during the 1997-1998 season.

Over the past few decades, citrus trees across the country have fallen victim to citrus greening, a disease that has wiped out large swaths of Florida’s once-thriving orange groves.

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.

As a comparison, the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected last month that Florida this growing season will produce 12 million boxes of oranges and 1.2 million boxes of grapefruit.