Michael Hornyak of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Citrus Health Response Program in this series of interviews with Southeast AgNet’s Gary Cooper clarifies changes to the citrus canker rule in Florida. In the first report, he notes that a canker quarantine remains in place, but has been altered to allow fresh fruit to move to other citrus producing states.
In following reports, he talks about backyard fresh fruit movement, grower reactions to regulations, and differences between fruit and plant movement regulations.
In the final report, he summarizes changes in fresh fruit packinghouse regulations under the new canker rule.
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