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Category: Rick Dantzler

2020: $13 million for Bayer. 2022: Zero results

Two years ago, CRDF “and others” had “previously” paid Bayer $12.6 million, plus another “$421,000 each,” amounting to well over $13 million for the German multinational to help Florida solve citrus greening. Of that $12.6 million, the vast bulk came from CRDF. Today: Zero results,Continue Reading2020: $13 million for Bayer. 2022: Zero results

Save Citrus attends Florida Citrus Industry Annual Conference

Save Citrus joined Florida citrus growers, processors, and others in the industry at the annual Florida Citrus Industry Annual Conference in Bonita Springs. Our own Jesse Rojas attended the Citrus Research and Development Foundation board meeting, whose COO Rick Dantzler greeted him. The two laterContinue ReadingSave Citrus attends Florida Citrus Industry Annual Conference

Jesse Rojas in Florida Daily: Out of options, CRDF chief wants to inject infected trees with acne medication

“After having poured millions into wasteful subsidies to Monsanto-Bayer to fight a bacteria that has wrecked Florida’s citrus groves, the lead person responsible for finding a solution has proposed a better idea,” Jesse Rojas of Save Citrus writes in Florida Daily. “He wants to treatContinue ReadingJesse Rojas in Florida Daily: Out of options, CRDF chief wants to inject infected trees with acne medication

New radio ads target ‘massive wealth transfer … from small family farms to big agribusiness’

“Florida growers have been asked to give even more money to the CRDF because Rick Dantzler thinks they need to show the state that they have ‘skin in the game’ to show the state when they lobby for research grants. This is a massive wealth transfer fromContinue ReadingNew radio ads target ‘massive wealth transfer … from small family farms to big agribusiness’

Radio ads to growers: It’s not ‘skin in the game.’ You’re being skinned alive

Radio ads across Florida’s citrus-growing regions are telling growers that they’re not putting their “skin in the game” by extending the mechanism to tax them to fund CRDF. CRDF has nothing to show for the $180,000,000 it has spent so far against HLB/citrus greening GrowersContinue ReadingRadio ads to growers: It’s not ‘skin in the game.’ You’re being skinned alive

Dantzler shifts blame for failure: CRDF ‘is controlled by Florida citrus growers’

Faced with a staggering record of failures driven by his Research-Industrial Complex policy, CRDF COO Rick Dantzler shifts blame to the growers. “CRDF is an organization created to serve Florida citrus growers and that is controlled by Florida citrus growers, it will recommend what itContinue ReadingDantzler shifts blame for failure: CRDF ‘is controlled by Florida citrus growers’

CRDF’s COO admits that Florida citrus growers are ‘frustrated’ with work on his watch

CRDF’s chief operating officer Rick Dantzler admits that Florida citrus growers “are frustrated with CRDF” but urges them to vote to continue the mechanism to assess taxes on them to fund his organization just the same. “When deciding how you vote on whether to continueContinue ReadingCRDF’s COO admits that Florida citrus growers are ‘frustrated’ with work on his watch

Dantzler urges growers to vote to save mechanism for assessing ‘box tax’

In what he called an “important clarification” to a SaveCitrus statement, CRDF’s Rick Dantzler urged growers to save the mechanism that assesses the ‘box tax’ which funds Dantzler’s operation. Dantzler’s statement appeared in Citrus Industry on May 25, two days after SaveCitrus announced an effortContinue ReadingDantzler urges growers to vote to save mechanism for assessing ‘box tax’

Board member tells Dantzler to back off referendum and let growers take the lead

Facing a severe budget shortfall and a track record of failures, CRDF COO Rick Dantzler was told to back off his lobbying of growers to vote to continue the box tax mechanism, and “to let the grower groups take the lead.” Official minutes show thatContinue ReadingBoard member tells Dantzler to back off referendum and let growers take the lead