Working toward rapid, inexpensive, environmentally friendly cures for HLB/citrus greening
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 later
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
The most costly project of the group created to save Florida citrus farmers has been a wasteful disaster. It produced nothing, wasted un-recoverable time, and allowed the HLB citrus greening disease to spread. Even worse, after three years and $12.3 million, the Citrus Research and
In just two days, more than 3.5 million people saw the Sun-Sentinel article about how CRDF has prevented large-scale testing of an inexpensive, off-the-shelf fertilizer that shows signs of helping citrus trees infected by HLB disease. This count relates only to people who saw the
We’re a group of friends in the Florida citrus business, and friends of Florida citrus growers and who have watched their groves wither away under the deadly HLB bacteria known as citrus greening. For years we’ve put our faith in the Citrus Research and Development