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A recent statewide quarantine of Georgia citrus trees and products brings home the need to control a disease that could threaten the US citrus industry. These reports provided by USDA Radio’s Rod Bain feature comments from Pat Gomes of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley …

CLICK HERE to view a PDF copy of the June newsletter from the Citrus Health Response Program. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle ProducersMarch 13, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support …

Here is the information on the Fall 2009 Class lineup at University of Florida’s Citrus Research and Education Center at Lake Alfred, FL. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle ProducersMarch 13, 2026Florida …

In this follow up story about newly proposed fresh citrus shipping rules published this week by USDA, comments by Florida Citrus Packers’ Association’s Richard Kinney (photo). Now a 60-day comment period gets underway. Interested parties are asked to offer their views about the proposed rules. To read and hear more about this in previous reports here at Southeast AgNet, CLICK …

Lots of communications about the newly proposed fresh citrus shipping rules from USDA kicked off the week. First, here are a couple of update reports on this issue featuring Richard Kinney of Florida Citrus Packers Association (photo left), who spoke to Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff in detail about the proposed rules. Now, here below is a summary preview of the …

When Citrus Commissioners decided this month to pursue ONLY research in a Federal Order and not include marketing funding as part of the effort, it left some asking ‘Why not marketing too?” Answering that question in this report is Citrus Commissioner Bob Behr. He is with Florida’s Natural Growers and he heads up the committee of the Commission that spent …

As of late today there has still been no official word out of USDA/APHIS about the proposed fresh citrus shipping rules for next season, but lots of folks are now saying it should be published any moment now. Once the rule is published a public comment period will begin. Beyond that USDA will make its final determination. Dan Richey of …