Doing light pruning every year is better than letting your citrus tree get overgrown and then doing a heavy pruning. Regular maintenance pruning will help your tree produce an annual crop, while heavy ...

A new multi-institutional study will develop and evaluate systems that deliver treatments to trees affected by citrus greening disease.

Here's how to care for your citrus trees as fall ... you want to avoid the rookie mistake too many make of laying mulch right up to the tree trunk. This is a good way to spread disease—make ...

CITRA, Fla. — Once standing at 18 feet tall and requiring ladders for harvest – the citrus trees are now barely half that height and struggle to survive in the grip of disease.

Major Florida grower to end citrus operations after years of hurricanes and tree disease Last month, agriculture officials said Florida's orange production forecast for the 2024-2025 season had ...

It’s also the tree that growers hope will save the state’s citrus industry. “When I saw the Donaldson tree, I was like, ‘Wow, this is something that’s really unique and really different ...

When Americans think of fresh orange juice, they probably picture a glass poured straight from Florida’s sun-drenched groves. But for two decades, the state’s citrus industry has been under ...

For several years now, citrus greening has been decimating residential citrus in Northeast Florida. Previous recommendations were to either remove the tree, or limp along until the fruit became ...

HLB has dealt a massive blow to Florida’s iconic citrus industry. Since citrus greening disease was first detected in the state in 2005, Florida citrus production is down by more than 92%. The disease ...

Citrus greening disease is spread by an Asian Citrus Psyllid. "It's a very, very small insect that feeds on the citrus tree, spreads the disease from one tree to the other and it eventually ends ...

The impact of Hurricanes Irma in 2017,Ian in 2022 and Milton in 2024 on trees already weakened from years of citrus greening disease “has led Alico to conclude that growing citrus is no longer ...