Citrus Industry This Week: Fruit Drop; Nematodes; Freeze Concern

Tacy Callies February 26, 2015 Citrus, Florida

Today’s issue of Citrus Industry This Week includes reports on quantifying fruit drop and two problematic nematodes. Want to learn more? Click here to subscribe free and view the current issue. Click here to subscribe to the monthly Citrus Industry magazine.

Five-Year Strategy for Fruit Flies Announced
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) has released its Fruit Fly Exclusion and Detection Program Strategy. The plan covers the period of 2024 to 2028. The agency called the document “a unified roadmap” for protecting American agriculture from the threat of invasive fruit flies. USDA APHIS worked with […]
Finger Lime Field Day Draws Mostly Non-Citrus Crowd
Only a few Florida commercial citrus growers were on hand for an April 24 finger lime field day at the Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC) in Lake Alfred. Most of the more than 40 attendees did not own citrus groves, and about half were women — definitely not the standard crowd for a CREC […]

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