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Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff has been attending the meeting in Ft. Pierce of some of the top scientists with the USDA and The National Academy of Sciences where citrus greening was the topic of discussion.  There were some suggestions made and Ernie tells us just what some of these were.   Report 1 (2:00 mp3)                        Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, …

In this report, Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff reports from this week’s Florida Citrus Mutual area meeting in Vero Beach. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Targeted Research for Florida Cattle IndustryFebruary 20, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Allows Viable Research in the Cattle IndustryFebruary 6, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Track Record Well Received By …

In this report, comments from University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC)Director Dr Harold Browning (in photo), about citrus greening and canker research discussions going on in Ft Pierce involving scientists from UF, USDA and the National Academy of Sciences. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Targeted Research for Florida …

Southeast AgNet/Citrus Industry Magazine Editor Ernie Neff files both these reports from this week’s emerging technologies field day in Immokallee FL. Stay tuned, we’ll have more features about these technologies in reports to come. Report (1:00 mp3) Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Targeted Research for Florida Cattle IndustryFebruary 20, 2026Florida Cattle …

In these reports Dr Calvin Arnold, Director of USDA’s Horticulture Lab in Ft Pierce, FL, discusses this week’s gathering of scientists from all over the country to discuss greening and canker. Among those expected are teams from USDA’s SWAT Team and scientists from the National Academy of Sciences thanks to a recent investment by the Florida Department of Citrus. Report …

In this week’s Florida Department of Citrus features, it’s a focus on retail marketing and communications initiatives. In these reports, FDOC Director of Retail Communications Pete Palmer describes the history about how this effort got started, and how working directly with management teams of the nation’s largest retailers, providing them information from FDOC marketing research efforts, is helping these retail …

In these four reports, comments from Tim Gast of Southern Gardens Citrus in Clewiston about their operation’s grove scouting and greening management program. Scouting, tree removal, and replicated research plots to look into a suspected guava-greening connection are all discussed. Gast offered the comments in a recent interview with Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff at the recent ‘Greening Summit” in Avon …

In these features, comments from citrus grower Peter McClure of Evans Properties. McClure also presently heads up the Florida Citrus Production Advisory Council, a group of involved growers who advise the research community on the most pressing grower needs in terms of answers to production challenges. McClure discusses the seriousness of the greening challenge and how his group and others …