Florida’s on track to have its worst orange season in nearly a century. The state’s citrus industry generates millions of ...
Florida citrus growers harvest crops and use irrigation systems to protect oranges from potentially damaging cold weather and freezing temperatures.
It sounded like pistol shots as the area’s citrus trees split open when sap inside them froze. The cash crop was destroyed, ...
Local farmers are seeing a decrease in citrus growth, and University of Florida scientists are researching a way to help one of Florida’s biggest crop exports.
Central Florida citrus farmers are gearing up for a long and busy weekend ahead of three expected nights of freezing ...
The federally mandated point-in-time count is made harder by Florida’s anti-camping law, volunteers say, as that has sent ...
Cold enough conditions to prompt winter clothing, have iguanas dropping from trees and farmers holding their breath for ...
South Florida residents woke up to a sight more common in the Midwest than the tropics this morning: frozen bird baths. The ...
As nights have grown milder in the past decade in the central region of the Sunshine State, Florida avocado growers have ...
The threat comes from HLB, also known as citrus greening, a tree virus spread by the very tiny Asian citrus psyllid.
BARTOW, FL – Citrus was a cornerstone of Florida's economy and identity for more than a century, but a decades-long decline driven by an invasive predator and relentless hurricanes leaves some ...
Follow these cold weather tips to prepare for the bitter cold in South Florida.