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 ...

The USDA forecast of 15 million boxes is nearly three million boxes less than the total production of Florida citrus during the 2023-24 harvest season, which was 17.96 million boxes.

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.

Florida’s struggling citrus industry received another blow on Tuesday as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) revised its production forecast for the current season downward. The latest ...

USDA's October citrus forecast, released Oct. 11, less than two days after Milton made landfall in Florida’s citrus belt, estimated Florida would produce 15 million boxes of oranges this season ...

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 ...

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.

California citrus growers can get up to $200,000 for projects to help with climate resilience and long-term sustainability under a program made possible by a $5 million grant from the California ...