When thinking about birds, perhaps the first thing that does not come to mind is plants. But the Citrus County Audubon ...

Most people know Florida’s citrus industry is struggling with citrus greening. The threat, however, doesn’t exist in a silo, and residential trees – where the plant disease was first detected in the ...

For what’s believed to be the first time in Florida, customers can enter a citrus growing structure designed to prevent ...

Hammered by hurricanes and citrus greening disease, Florida's citrus industry ended the 2024-2025 growing season with the lowest production in more than a century, according to numbers released Friday ...

Citrus was such a major industry in Florida, it became entwined with the state's history and culture. Not anymore. (Photo title "Busy Day in an Orange Grove" via Florida State Archives) This weekend I ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday awarded a $16.4 million Job Growth Grant Fund to Citrus County to replace a sanitary ...

In his camouflage golf cart, John Bitter drives slowly through a graveyard of citrus trees. The trees’ trunks are knobby, the branches spindly and bare. Some fell to a hard frost, while others were ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Pointing to Florida’s decades-long fight with deadly citrus greening disease and damage from hurricanes, a major grower Monday announced it will “wind down” citrus operations and ...

FLORIDA, USA — Oranges are so engrained in Florida's identity that they're featured on our license plates, but now one of the state's leading citrus producers is leaving the industry. Alico, Inc.

TALLAHASSEE — With the industry’s problems exacerbated by Hurricane Milton, Florida citrus growers are turning to state and federal lawmakers for help. Florida Citrus Commission Chair Steve Johnson ...

Hurricane Milton, the fourth hurricane to slam Florida agriculture in 14 months, damaged citrus and other specialty crops, knocked out power to some dairy farms, and also struck a sizable portion of U ...

This weekend I was driving through Central Florida on U.S. 301, so I just HAD to stop at the Orange Shop in Citra. It was as if my car was pulled into their parking lot by one of those giant magnets ...