It’s a cloudy Friday morning at Dick Spears’ southwest Orange County home in the upscale Bay Hill neighborhood. Rain drizzles into Spears’ swimming pool as he sits in his screened patio, surveying the ...

When I started my horticultural career in New Orleans back in 1980, my memory of growing citrus seems so easy. White flies and other sucking insects and the sooty mold they caused were the only major ...

Bill "Boo" Graves had been looking forward to some of the best grapefruit prices in recent memory when state inspectors found citrus canker in one of his St. Lucie County groves this spring. It wasn't ...