APHIS has announced a new quarantine zone in California to address sweet orange scab (SOS), caused by the fungus Elsinöe ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida’s orange crop production just increased slightly, but it’s still on track to be the smallest harvest since 1920. The USDA now expects 12 million boxes this season, which is ...

A lone, 30-year-old tree in Lake County, Florida could help the state's orange juice industry turn around because it's tolerant to the greening disease.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA) released its revised forecast Thursday. Florida farmers are now projected to ...

According to the University of Florida, climate-start breeding and refining orchard management is what the state's stone ...

YUMA — When Mark Kuechel was a boy, he nearly got lost in the maze of unnamed dirt roads and citrus groves in eastern Yuma County ... their growing zone, zone 8, which in the Plant Hardiness ...

“You may not think about your plants out in the lawn or garden ... something we might find in Florida, that can be grown in zones 7-11. “It can only tolerate an extreme cold temperature ...

Space Florida is pursuing a significant expansion of wastewater treatment capacity at the Merritt Island Sykes Creek treatment plant, requesting that the county ... landing zones on Space Coast ...

The coldest weather of the season is moving into the Tampa Bay area on Tuesday night — which doesn't exactly come as welcome news to our tropical Florida plants. The National Weather Service ...

When citrus ... plant-based proteins and a sustainable biofuel,” per the Associated Press. But Paul and other Florida citrus experts are skeptical. Ray Royce, executive director of Highlands ...

NBC News has confirmed a total of 17 people that died as a result of Hurricane Milton in Florida. There was one death in Citrus County ... weren't in the evacuation zones. "We’re talking ...