The June issue of Specialty Crop Grower magazine honors the winner of the 2025 Citrus Achievement Award. Ben Albritton, this year’s recipient, is a fourth-generation citrus grower and Florida politician. Learn all about his career and accomplishments in the cover story. Don’t miss the digital edition of the magazine to see an exclusive video interview. Albritton and Specialty Crop Grower Editor-in-Chief Frank Giles discuss current issues and Florida citrus heritage.
A group of Georgia citrus growers and industry representatives recently took a tour of California’s citrus industry to see what they could learn to benefit their operations. Find out what knowledge they took home from the trip.
Are you dealing with diseases other than HLB in your grove? In a Q&A article, Megan Dewdney, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) plant pathologist, has advice on managing canker, black spot and algal spot.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expanding its Grove-First project in the search for materials suitable for trunk-injection treatment in the fight against HLB. USDA’s Randall Niedz and Michelle Heck give updates on the three phases of this research and share what materials look most promising so far.
In other research news, the UF/IFAS Southwest Florida Research and Education Center in Immokalee hosted a field day in April to showcase its current citrus studies. Giles attended the event and provides a summary of the key takeaways from the field tour and research presentations. Some of the topics covered included individual protective covers, brassinosteroids, citrus under protective screen, weed management and trunk injection of oxytetracycline (OTC). See a video of a robot injecting trees with OTC in the digital edition of the magazine.
Also in the June issue is the latest installment of the UF/IFAS Citrus State column by Scott Angle, vice president for agriculture and natural resources and leader of UF/IFAS. He discusses some positive changes he has been witnessing while in the field with citrus growers.
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