Citrus Greening

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is offering $23 million dollars in grant funding to combat citrus greening. The entire state of Florida is in a...

Citrus greening, which has laid waste to vast swaths of Florida's famed orange groves, has definitely gotten the attention of the federal…

Citrus producers might have another tool for their fight against citrus greening.

Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner is asking for close to $20 million in this year’s budget to combat citrus greening. This comes as the most recent...

Experts predict a spike in the price of Florida’s citrus this upcoming harvest season, meaning slightly more revenue for the state’s farmers. But an...

Federal agriculture officials are spending more than $1.5 million on so-called “bio-control” efforts to combat citrus greening in crops in Florida,…

This year's Florida orange crop is approaching the fruit's lowest harvest in 24 years.The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday released its citrus…

Help might soon be on the way to help fight one of the biggest scourges to ever face Florida's citrus industry.A House and Senate Farm Bill Conference…

Scientists and growers are in a bitter fight against citrus greening, a disease that has devastated Florida's orange and grapefruit crops. They fear that unless scientists find a cure for greening soon, it's just a matter of time before economic realities and the disease force growers out of business.

The agency is launching a new coordinated research effort to stop citrus greening, a disease imported from Asia that turns fruit bitter and unmarketable. It first turned up in Florida eight years. Now, it threatens to destroy the nation's citrus industry.

The federal government is getting involved in the fight against citrus greening disease, in hopes of saving Florida’s – and possibly the entire nation’s –…