The long-struggling Florida citrus industry now faces an invasive species crisis, but researchers have a plan to fight back.

Florida’s citrus industry is experiencing a revival after years of struggling with canker and citrus greening, a pest-borne ...

On either side of a sandy dirt road, Valencia orange trees tower overhead with flecks of orange and yellow peeking through leafy green branches. Morgan McKenna Porter, 32, has spent her whole life in ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in an oasis of oranges, her windows overlooking groves of golden fruit and silky blossoms. The Connecticut author and abolitionist – of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” fame – tended to ...

LAKE WALES — As Trevor Murphy pulls up to his dad’s 20-acre grove in one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States, he points to the cookie-cutter, one-story homes encroaching on the orange ...

Matt Mattia used both hands to flip through the branch at his eye level, studying each side of every leaf as sunlight filtered from above. “Just healthy leaves,” he said, noting the dark green color.

Central Florida’s citrus harvests are ripening just in time for the holidays, and Dun-D Citrus Growers — a Polk County ...

Oranges — one of Florida’s most iconic symbols — have suffered a major decline in production since the 1980s, when a large freeze event heavily damaged the citrus industry. But one UF graduate student ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s citrus industry is in crisis. In the last 20 years, production has fallen a staggering 90%—from 300 million boxes a year to just 12 million last season. The Florida ...

TALLAHASSEE - Citrus growers called on lawmakers Tuesday to continue providing research and advertising money to help an industry that has seen production drop more than 90% in less than three decades ...

If you want your citrus trees to produce an abundance of healthy fruit in winter, now is the time to care for them. I grew up in Arizona, where I had no appreciation for the absurd quantities of ...

LAKE WALES (AP) — As Trevor Murphy pulls up to his dad’s 20-acre grove in one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States, he points to the cookie-cutter, one-story homes encroaching on the ...