Rebuilding Florida Citrus Groves

Randall Weiseman September 19, 2014 Citrus, Florida, Fruits, General, Specialty Crops

This week, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced dollars to help rebuild citrus groves in Florida. Cindy Zimmerman has more.

HLB-Tolerant Scion Breeding Update
U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) geneticist Matt Mattia with the U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory in Fort Pierce, Florida, recently provided a scion breeding update on HLB-tolerant citrus. A slightly edited version follows: Significant strides are being made in the development and evaluation of new citrus varieties, with many now nearing commercial release. These […]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Optimizing OTC Injections
By Ute Albrecht, Caroline Tardivo, Larissa Nunes, Gabriel Pugina, Gerardo Moreno and Jasmine de Freitas As growers are well into the second year of oxytetracycline (OTC) injections since approval for commercial use, more and more data are accumulating. The good news is that in all University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) […]

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