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With quick political answers unlikely, immigration issues will likely dog Florida’s agricultural producers for quite some time....More

Florida agriculture faces challenges galore — and one speaker after another cited those challenges at the recent Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association’s 69th annual convention in Naples....More

A national effort to help battle some of the biggest threats to America’s citrus industry cleared a key hurdle recently....More

After Florida’s buyout of farms on Lake Apopka in 1998 David and Michael Hill could have waved goodbye to farming forever. The Lake Apopka Restoration Act, signed into law by Gov. Lawton Chiles, aimed at making the lake waters pristine once again. The way to do it, of course, was to give farmers the boot....More

Mark Wheeler examines the new flush of growth on 70 rehabilitated acres of pineapple oranges near Lake Wales and likes what he sees....More

Tom Rooney (FL-16), chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry, commenting on the House Agriculture Committee’s approval of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management (FARRM) Act, said, “Our farm bill is good for Florida’s farmers and ranchers, and it’s good for Florida taxpayers....More

Three companies have donated a total of $200,000 to the Center for Produce Safety....More

Permits submitted by the state of Florida under the federal Clean Water Act to improve the quality of water flowing into the Everglades will satisfy the Environmental Protection Agency’s permit objections and will meet the requirements of the CWA in EPA’s Sept. 3, 2010 Amended Determination, the agency has announced....More

Closely tied together, the U.S. produce industry and migrant work crews have both been closely following developments with state laws aimed at undocumented labor....More

The 58,000-pound mechanical harvesters pounding through groves outside Immokalee this spring gave a good look at the citrus industry’s possible future....More

Walking around the intensely-worked 40 acres she and her husband, Chris, farm near Punta Gorda, Fla., Eva Worden points out the hundreds of vegetable cultivars they grow, then reflects a bit on her own rather unusual journey to this place....More

Are we ready for continuing record-breaking warm temperatures and their consequences? According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), March this year was the warmest since records began to be compiled in 1895....More