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Tuesday, March 02, 2021
Citrus growers are pleased but environmental groups are concerned about the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of aldicarb for use on oranges and grapefruit in Florida to combat citrus greening, which has devastated the industry in the state since it was first identified in 2005.
President-elect Joe Biden promised on the campaign trail to reverse the Trump administration’s policy of breaking ties with Cuba, and that has U.S. farm groups once again hoping their farmers will benefit with increased trade.
Southern farmers and lawmakers are taking another shot at getting competition protection from the Mexican fruit and vegetables that have been increasingly pouring across the border.
The House Appropriations Committee has approved $69.5 million to be put toward researching and preventing the spread of Huanglongbing, or citrus greening disease, in the United States.
Farmworker advocates are sounding the alarm about the growing threat of COVID-19 to the more than 2 million people who harvest a wide variety of crops grown in the U.S.
Retail orange juice sales rose to the highest levels seen since 2015 in April, when the COVID-19 pandemic prompted stay-at-home orders and business closures.
While the novel coronavirus looms over producers and farmworkers coast to coast, farmers and agribusinesses are employing a full array of practices and resources to beat it back.
Six Florida companies whose H-2A applications to hire truck drivers were denied by the Labor Department may get some relief as the result of a court decision Monday.
The United States Sugar Corporation (USSC) has filed suit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ regarding the lake levels and water release standards of Lake Okeechobee, the largest freshwater lake in Florida.
Mexican immigrants have gradually advanced from farmworker to become the most typical California strawberry farmer, but now they faces challenges over labor and affordable farmland.