What makes a fruit a citrus fruit? Fruits from the citrus family have thick skin with pulpy and fleshy segmented insides. Citrus fruits are native to Asia and grow on evergreen trees. However, citrus ...

PITTSBURGH— It's pretty easy to feel blue on a dreary, colorless day in January in Pittsburgh. The fun and excitement of the holidays has dissipated, and even though the days are slowly growing longer ...

Newly released figures on Wednesday have confirmed that Florida had its worst citrus season in almost a century during 2022-2023. Growers were already facing challenges and the situation was made ...

PITTSBURGH — It’s pretty easy to feel blue on a dreary, colorless day in January in Pittsburgh. The fun and excitement of the holidays has dissipated, and even though the days are slowly growing ...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s citrus industry limped to the end of the 2023-2024 growing season, with farmers hoping newly planted and recovering trees can avoid hurricane damage this year. The U.S.

The weather on the cusp of winter and spring can be particularly cruel. One day warm and sunny, flush with the promise of a carefree summer, the next, plunged back into the dreary, damp depths of ...

(Mass Appeal) – We’re just approaching the end of citrus season. In our area, it runs from December to March and that’s when grapefruits, oranges, clementines, and tangerines hit the markets. To take ...

A new federal report says Florida’s struggling citrus industry already was expected to produce less fruit during the 2024-2025 growing season. And that was before Hurricane Milton swept across Central ...

Citrus fruit boxes were forecasted to rise by 1% in July based on the numbers released Tuesday by the USDA Agricultural Statistics Board. The estimate put total production of citrus at 41.0 million ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday issued a final report that showed a huge dropoff in production from the 2021-2022 season. The industry would have to go back to the 1929-1930 season to ...