Sentences with phrase «citrus growers say»

Florida's citrus growers say as much as 90 percent of their acreage and 80 percent of their trees are infected by the deadly greening disease, which is making a huge dent in the state's $ 10.7 billion citrus industry, a new University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences survey shows.

Although Texas is known more for its exports of oil and football, it also produces its own variety of grapefruit and oranges, ones that native Texans T.J. Flowers, Jud Flowers and Trent Bishop of Lone Star Citrus Growers say are the sweetest that can be found.

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In addition to providing an evolutionary framework for citrus, the study also contains practical applications for current growers and consumers, said Fred Gmitter, a UF / IFAS professor of horticultural sciences and co-author of the paper.

Finding the new approach to combating HLB was fortuitous, said lead Dr. David Hall of the U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory, who presented his findings to Florida citrus growers at the end in January 2016.

The finding means growers can count and find the immature citrus faster, Lee said, which could help growers, who rely heavily on manual labor to pick the citrus, save money, the study says.