Battered by hurricanes, disease and expenses, Florida citrus growers get a $675 million federal lifeline to help them through ...

Fresh from bagging pythons in the Everglades, then meeting with sugar growers in Clewiston, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture ...

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 ...

USDA announced $675.9 million in disaster aid to Florida farmers for hurricane damage, as part of a $30 billion relief effort ...

Commissioner Simpson Praises USDA, President Trump for Critical Funding Following Successive Hurricane Seasons Florida's agricultural industry, battered by over $3 billion in damages from the 2023 and ...

Florida’s citrus industry has been impacted by a perfect storm of impacts with production levels not seen since before World ...

As a comparison, the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected last month that Florida this growing season will produce 12 million boxes of oranges and 1.2 million boxes of grapefruit.

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.

With research occurring at places such as the University of Florida, Joyner said the goal is to stabilize the industry by putting into groves trees that are resistant to citrus greening, which is ...