Hammered by hurricanes and citrus greening disease, Florida's citrus industry ended the 2024-2025 growing season with the ...

Florida may produce as few as 89 million boxes of oranges this year, forecasters say, down 63 percent from the 242 million boxes the state produced a decade ago.

Commissioner Simpson Praises USDA, President Trump for Critical Funding Following Successive Hurricane Seasons Florida's ...

The Department of Agriculture said Monday that it will provide $675.9 million in disaster assistance to help Floridian farmers to recover from two years of hurricane damage.

Ripening fruit in a grove in Plant City, Fla., this month. Florida citrus growers are worried about citrus greening, which causes bacteria to grow on the leaf and fruit, eventually killing the tree.

Florida is expected to produce over 5 million more boxes of oranges during the upcoming season, 30 percent more than last season, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "The trees look good.

Florida citrus was born in St. Augustine, sprouting in the 1500s from a pocketful of seeds aboard a Spanish ship, a flowery display of colonial power amid many brutal ones.