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Legislature Seeks Spring Trial in Conservation Funding Fight

News Service of Florida Attorneys for the Florida House and Senate have asked a judge to schedule a trial during the last week of March and the first week of April in a long-running battle about whether lawmakers have properly carried out a 2014 constitutional amendment that required setting aside money for land-conservation efforts. The request, filed Monday in Leon …

Citrus Administrative Committee Seeks Nominations
The Citrus Administrative Committee (CAC) is seeking nominations for new committee members and alternates to serve two-year terms from August 2026 to August 2028. Nominations for members and alternate members will be submitted within an official nomination meeting. This meeting will be held via Zoom on April 16 at 1:30 p.m. A chairman and secretary […]
Growers Putting CRISPR Trees Into the Ground
More than 300,000 CRISPR-edited citrus trees are being planted this year that have shown great potential against citrus greening disease in test groves. CRISPR, which stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, is a gene-editing technology to help citrus growers produce a crop amid the disease. The Florida citrus industry is eager to see […]

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