Mason Smoak of Smoak Groves in Lake Placid is presently the Chairman of Florida Farm Bureau’s Citrus Advisory Committee, among the many FFB Committees holding winter meetings in Gainesville in recent days. In this report, Smoak discusses the committee’s activities as part of Farm Bureau’s policy-development process, and the importance that growers stay informed on the latest information available about …
FDOC: Fresh Market Outlook Strong
Bob Norberg of the Florida Department of Citrus discusses the fresh citrus market outlook in this report. Report (2:00 wma) Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024
Extraordinary Influences in Fresh Citrus Market
Market & Economic Research Director for the Florida Department of Citrus, Bob Norberg, spoke to us recently about the many influences in the fresh citrus market presently. Hear some of our discussion in this report. Report (2:00 wma) Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024
National Weather Service Forecaster: “El Nino is Waning”
What does it mean that El Nino is waning? Bart Hagemeyer of the National Weather Service’s Melbourne FL office says it could mean several things. He comments about the 2007 hurricane season outlook in this report. Report (2:00 wma) Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024
Waning El Nino Not Delivering Normal El Nino Rain Patterns
Bart Hagemeyer with the National Weather Service office in Melbourne FL, speaking with citrus growers at a seminar in Ft Pierce last week, says the El Nino that came on so quickly last year has not produced rainfall patterns that are typically expected from an El Nino pattern. In this report he discusses rainfall and hurricane expectations as a result …
Updated Map of Citrus Greening Available
Here’s the latest map of citrus greening in Florida (pdf file)Growers who have questions can contact the Florida Department of Agriculture Division of Plant Industry offices in Gainesville. Citrus growers are encouraged to take a few moments to offer ideas as to how they think canker or greening can be best controlled. E-mail us at growertrials@southeastagnet.com, and then look for …
Major Changes for FL Citrus Nurseries
An update about the rebuilding of the Florida Citrus Nursery industry and some of the new regulations making it very expensive and slow in coming. Citrus Nurseryman Nate Jamison was president of the Citrus Nurserymen’s Association during the times of hurricanes and canker eradication efforts in recent years. He spoke to citrus growers at a seminar in Ft. Pierce last …
Lack of Citrus Budwood A Major Factor in Rebuilding Nurseries
In this report, Citrus Nurseryman Nate Jamison explains that the damage to citrus budwood stocks from the years of hurricanes and canker spread is a major factor delaying the rebuilding of the citrus nursery industry in Florida. Report (2:00 wma) Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024
Many Topics Discussed at Citrus Seminar
This report is simply an overview of some of the seminar topics and points being made at the grower seminars for Indian River area growers in Ft Pierce this week. It’s been great to visit so many old friends at the Seminars. Stay tuned, we have lots of feature news segments coming for citrus growers from newsmakers we interviewed at …
Young Trees Reduced to Growers
Our citrus news team is on the road this week, visiting with many of our readers and listeners in the Indian River region at their annual seminar series geared for fresh fruit growers. In this report, Citrus Industry Magazine editor Ernie Neff reports from Ft Pierce about some of the seminar presentations. Report (:52 wma) Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide …