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• “We’re in the fight of our lives against this disease. We’re an $8 billion industry, and we generate about 46,000 jobs, and so we’re very important to the state of Florida, and many of the rural communities in Florida in the interior rely on citrus.”
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• The Florida Department of Emergency Management has received more than 340 million dollars to aid in citrus recovery efforts after Hurricane Irma. Farmers will be able to apply for grants that support tree planting and irrigation rebuilding.
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• Florida’s citrus crop is projected to be historically low as growers approach mid-season.
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• Hurricane Irma hammered citrus growers, but Florida is home to a lot of other vegetable and fruit production too. How are those other growers faring, two months after the storm?
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• Florida citrus growers remain hopeful for federal help by the year’s end.
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• Florida citrus growers are calling for federal help after Irma.
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• University of Florida researchers think they’ve found a way to cure trees infected with citrus greening. And U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has announced federal grants to help curb the disease.
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• When freezing temperatures are in the forecast, you might cover the plants in your front yard or bring potted foliage inside. But for citrus growers, preparing for the 32-degree mark is a bit more complicated.
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• A new citrus forecast is giving hope to Florida growers battered by greening. The USDA forecast released this week remains unchanged from November, at 108 million boxes.
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• Ten years ago Friday Hurricane Frances came ashore on Florida’s East Coast. It was the second of four disastrous hurricanes to strike the state during the ’04 season. The citrus industry never really recovered. Not since Texas in 1886 had four hurricanes struck a state in one season. Andrew Meadows of Florida Citrus Mutual says the industry was especially hard-hit. He says today production remains down by more than 50 percent. “It just knocked trees out, pulled trees out, uprooted them, destroyed groves.” Meadows says citrus greening and development also are to blame. Frances crossed the Florida peninsula and made a second landfall in the Big Bend area. The hurricane was the most destructive of the ’04 season, spawning 23 …
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