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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Letter to the Editor”
Tax increases proposed by President Joe Biden “would devastate Florida’s citrus industry,” Florida Citrus Mutual CEO Mike Sparks wrote in a recent editorial. The editorial was in The Ledger, a newspaper in Lakeland, Florida. Biden’s proposal would impose a 43% tax on growers when they sell one area of land for another, Sparks stated. Most growers’ assets are in their …
By Bill Castle University of Florida professor emeritus Paul Genho, a former manager of the Deseret Ranch in Osceola County, spoke about soils and food at a Florida land conference in 2015.** He noted that 90 percent of the world’s food production occurred on only four soil types: Mollisols, Alfisols, Ultisols and Oxisols. A goodly proportion of those soil types …
By Bill Castle University of Florida professor emeritus During a recent breakfast with an industry friend, I asked: What is your outlook on the future of our industry? His positive reply was direct and immediate. He expanded on that reply by revealing a realistic confidence in the ability of growers to plant and grow young trees as supported by his …
