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IT IS only a matter of time before huanglongbing, which is also known as citrus greening disease, makes its way to Australia. This was one of the key messages at the Citrus Tech Conference held in Mildura last week. HLB is a bacterial disease that was first found in southern California in...

WASHINGTON D.C. – The United Fresh Produce Association will present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Bruce McEvoy...

Del Monte Fresh Produce, based in Coral Gables, FL, announced that Hani El-Naffy will leave his post...

On July 14, the Executive Director of the Georgia Peanut Commission, was honored by a formal acknowledgement...

Grocery delivery might have seemed like a peripheral service just a handful of years ago, but the...

Sometimes the price of doing nothing is that nothing gets done. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio made that...

The setting for the orange juice is even worse than expected earlier this year. The world market...

Here’s a shocking statistic: According to a recent report in the Guardian, new research suggests American retailers...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida’s citrus industry, struggling in a battle against a fatal citrus disease, will have a little bit sweeter season than projected in an initial forecast. However, the outlook for the state’s orange crop continues to be troubling. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s final forecast for the 2015-2016 citrus growing...

The Asian citrus psyllid(ACP) and the disease it carries represent perhaps the worst threat to the California...