The theme of this year’s Citrus Expo seminar program, “Production basics to ensure the future,” will help growers continue to do what they do best — for years to come. The event takes place Aug. 15-16 at the Lee Civic Center in North Fort Myers. As always, the seminars will offer multiple CEUs and CCAs. Visit the Citrus Expo website for more information on the event.
Citrus commissioners Wednesday hear proposals for a 2012-13 marketing plan that will hopefully spur OJ sales in the face of a long sales decline. Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff reports.
Blight, known to be in Florida for more than 100 years, remains a huge problem for Florida citrus growers – possibly worse than HLB for many. University of Florida scientist Ron Brlansky provides an update on the disease and discusses research being conducted on it.
University of Florida geneticist Chunxian Chen told growers attending this spring’s Florida Citrus Growers Institute how some in China have successfully managed HLB while others have not. In this report, Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012–Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement about the U.S-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, or Colombia TPA, which enters into force today. Read the rest of this entry »
Florida Citrus Mutual Monday took steps to appeal the International Trade Commission’s decision to revoke the anti-dumping order on Brazilian orange juice processors. Mutual spokesman Andrew Meadows explains the action.
The country’s largest citrus grower organization has filed a summons with the U.S. Court of International Trade initiating an appeal of the International Trade Commission (ITC) decision to revoke the anti-dumping order against Brazilian orange juice processors. Read the rest of this entry »
This week’s citrus calendar includes Wednesday’s Florida Citrus Commission meeting, where declining orange juice sales will once again be a major topic. Friday, the Citrus Research and Development Foundation’s Commercial Product Development Committee meets. Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff has more about both meetings.
As expected, the Florida Citrus Packers on May 3 confirmed that Peter Chaires will soon succeed Richard Kinney as executive vice president of the organization representing Florida’s fresh fruit packers and shippers. This report has more information on Chaires and the organization’s recognition of Kinney for his 29 years of service.
University of Florida entomologist Phil Stansly in this interview says it takes a village of people working together and using all available technologies to control HLB-spreading psyllids. He briefly discusses insecticides, biological control and cultural control measures, as well as the use of reflective mulch that is promising but has some limitations.
Citrus Research and Development Foundation Chief Operations Officer Harold Browning discusses the foundation’s increasing focus on commercial product development to provide more tools to manage HLB and canker. He also discusses the foundation’s budget for next year, and the amount of funding the foundation may seek from the Florida Citrus Commission.
Florida Citrus Mutual spokesman Andrew Meadows in the first report discusses the educational session at the organization’s June 13-15 Florida Citrus Industry Conference. He tells about planned fun activities in the second report.
Southeast AgNet will webcast the USDA’s latest citrus crop forecast. CLICK HERE to test the audio stream for our upcoming “LIVE” webcast coverage of the release of USDA’s monthly Citrus Crop Forecast program to begin at about 8:30 a. m. Thursday morning May 10, 2012.
Also Thursday, a Citrus Scouting and Pest Management Workshop will be conducted at the University of Florida’s Indian River Research and Education Center near Fort Pierce. Get the details in this report.
Alva native James English tells about the efforts of a company he leads to build a robotic device that will harvest citrus for the processed market. English, president and CEO of Energid Technologies Corp. in Massachusetts, made a presentation at an international mechanical harvesting symposium held a month ago in Lake alfred.
Indian River County, Fla. – Continuing his focus on job creation and promoting Florida’s world famous citrus industry, Governor Rick Scott picked and processed oranges at IMG Citrus in Indian River County for his ninth ‘Let’s Get to Work!’ Day. He took part in every step of getting oranges to market, including Read the rest of this entry »
CLICK HERE for the audio stream for our upcoming “LIVE” webcast coverage of the release of USDA’s monthly Citrus Crop Forecast program to begin at about 8:30 a. m. Thursday morning May 10, 2012.
Hear the audio stream in this post to test your system, and stay tuned for the LIVE website audio stream program to begin about 8:30 a. m. Thursday morning May 10, 2012.
ATTENTION LISTENERS: Please be aware this LIVE AUDIO CONFERENCE is sometimes a few moments late to start, and there is no background music in preview. So when you tune in at the scheduled time, please be patient as the conference call will be silent until USDA officials join the line to release the crop update.
Multi-county Extension agent Gary England discusses the extensive citrus research conducted at the Mid Florida Citrus Foundation’s Krezdorn research grove on Water Conserv II property near Winter Garden.
New legislation has been introduced in the House to stop attempts by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers to expand federal power under the Clean Water Act.
Earn one General Standards (CORE) continuing education unit (CEU) by reading the article, “Protecting your respiratory tract when handling pesticides,” and passing the accompanying test. Citrus Industry magazine’s second CEU article of the year, authored by University of Florida’s Stephen F. Futch and Tim Gaver, is now online and will appear in the May issue of Citrus Industry. This CEU will be available until May 1, 2013. Earn your CEU here.
The theme of this year’s Citrus Expo seminar program, “Production basics to ensure the future,” will help growers continue to do what they do best — for years to come. The event takes place Aug. 15-16 at the Lee Civic Center in North Fort Myers. As always, the seminars will offer multiple CEUs and CCAs. Visit the Citrus Expo website for more information on the event.
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