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Florida citrus growers should now have their ballots for voting on a new state citrus research order. Tom Jerkins tells why he supports the new research order as a grower and as president of the foundation that will soon administer research funds. Post sponsor: Copper coverage with Less Metallic Copper per acre. Sponsored ContentUnited Dairy Farmers of Florida Director Encouraged …

Fifty growers and production managers took a full-day bus tour a week before Thanksgiving to see how nutritional sprays and so-called systemic acquired resistance (SAR) products are working in some greening-infected groves in Southwest Florida. The tour, organized by Peace River Valley Citrus Growers Association, started and finished in Arcadia and included several stops near Immokalee. Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff …

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Citrus growers Marty McKenna and Bob Stambaugh, both also members of the Citrus Research and Development Foundation, tell why they’ll vote yes in the referendum on a new state citrus research order. Most growers should have received ballots by now; they must be returned by Dec. 4 to be counted. Post sponsor: Copper coverage with Less Metallic Copper per acre. …

The Citrus Research and Development Foundation discusses citrus greening research issues and takes more organizational steps to prepare itself to eventually administer all grower-funded citrus research. In the first segment, Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff reports on the foundation’s continuing discussions about tree therapies that seem to keep greening-infected trees alive and productive. His second report focuses on the relatively new …

Florida citrus growers should have received ballots this week to vote on a new citrus research order. In the first report, Florida Citrus Mutual CEO Mike Sparks summarizes his reasons for growers to vote “yes”. In the second report, growers George Austin and Wayne Simmons tell why they support the new order. Post sponsor: Copper coverage with Less Metallic Copper …