woodguru wrote:
My wife gets a UCDavis magazine that talks about different research projects and other things they are involved in. There was an article on a disease called Greening Disease that has decimated the citrus industry in Florida, it has wiped out 80% of their commercial industry and virtually 100% of the backyard citrus.
California now produces 80% of the citrus in the US. Apparently there are a few cases cropping up in backyard citrus...so scientists are watching and trying to find something that helps with this, so far there is no way to fight it.
It works by making green citrus stay small and green, they don't ripen. The head researcher on this at at Davis is saying that this is spread or comes from a bug, and one of the things that may save the valley's citrus is that the bug can't take extreme heat or cold, so the more moderate climate areas get hit.
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I live in Florida and they do have a disease that is k*****g the Orange industry. It affects the trees and the leaves curl up and the tree slowly dies and thay cannot cure the problem. On another note Florida has a worse disease that is k*****g the Orange industry and it is the snowflakes and the snowbirds moving in and taking over and paying too much for the properties which k**ls the orange groves in waves. Both diseases have been around for many years and didn't just happen in the last couple of years.