Working toward rapid, inexpensive, environmentally friendly cures for HLB/citrus greening
Facing his failure to protect Florida citrus against HLB/citrus greening, CRDF’s Rick Dantzler denies to the Florida Citrus Mutual board that he has been blowing growers’ money on the “research-industrial complex.” Dantzler has been stung by criticism over his close ties to Germany’s Monsanto-Bayer conglomerate,
CRDF leader Rick Dantzler’s tally of the destruction of Florida citrus since 2009, as reported by Citrus Industry: 100,000 acres of Florida citrus groves have disappeared, from 451,100 to 351,057 acres. Orange production is destroyed, from 133,700,000 boxes to 51,700,000 boxes. Grapefruit production has practically
“In a recent statement, Rick Dantzler is, chief operating officer of the Citrus Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), didn’t really talk glowingly about CRDF’s accomplishments,” Citrus Industry reports. “Rather, he started off by telling how far the Florida citrus industry has declined since CRDF was