Rosanne DunkelbergerFebruary 14, 2024Tag: Florida Department of CitrusGabrielle Russon
Rosanne DunkelbergerFebruary 14, 2024
Kelly HayesApril 10, 2021
5min2001
The state's current predicted production is also down 23% from last year.
Wire ServicesOctober 10, 2020
Danny McAuliffeJune 11, 2019
3min286
Production is still up from last year's season, the worst in decades.
Danny McAuliffeFebruary 4, 2019
5min316
A silver lining for a recently woeful industry.
Jacob OglesFebruary 2, 2019
5min677
USDA officials say funding will combat unwarranted retaliation against U.S. farmers.
Danny McAuliffeDecember 11, 2018
5min389
Expectations toward Florida’s most-iconic crop are shifting from sour to sweet more than a year after Hurricane Irma inflicted catastrophic damage on Florida’s citrus industry. Growers in the state are expected to produce 77 million boxes of oranges during the 2018-2019 growing season, according to citrus forecasts released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. […]
Danny McAuliffeJuly 13, 2018
5min440
The Florida citrus season is ending on a sour note, with growers on track to produce just under 45 million boxes of oranges. The harvest numbers were posted to the United States Department of Agriculture’s website on Thursday, ending what’s come to be a tragic 2017-18 growing season. Before Hurricane Irma’s landfall last September, Florida […]
Danny McAuliffeMay 24, 20183min278
A vacancy on the nine-member governing board of the Florida Department of Citrus has been filled. Gov. Rick Scott announced Thursday afternoon the appointment of Pat Schirard to the Florida Citrus Commission. Schirard, 57, of Vero Beach, is the president of GEM Indian River Select, a premium juice company that prides itself on solely using Florida citrus […]
Danny McAuliffeMay 10, 2018
6min308
There’s good and bad in the latest United States Department of Agriculture citrus forecast; projected numbers are down, though not by much, signaling stability. USDA projections released Thursday estimate Florida growers will produce 44.95 million boxes of oranges in the current growing season. At the start of the citrus season in October, USDA officials estimated the […]