Florida and oranges go together like peanut butter and jelly. Despite that strong association, the Sunshine State isn't the leading producer of this fruit.

Now, hope is budding on an unlikely branch: a 30-year-old tree named Donaldson, growing on a research farm near Groveland. Scientists say it could be the key to rescuing Florida’s oranges from ...

Florida’s orange production rose 1% in July, marking five months without a decline, encouraging news for the state's citrus ...

Florida's orange crop expected to fall to lowest level since World War II 00:15. By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN. The combination of extreme weather and a disease impacting citrus fruit is ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that Florida’s orange crop will reach levels not seen since before World War II, with just over 11.5 million boxes expected to be produced during the ...

1 of 4 | Just weeks after Florida's 2024-25 orange crop production estimate was slashed by 20%, ... (early, mid-season and Navel varieties) and 7 million boxes of Valencia oranges.

Mounting concerns. When Hurricane Irma blasted through the state's orange belt in 2017, Florida's signature crop already had been on a downward spiral for two decades because of the greening disease.

Citrus groves in Florida, which covered more than 832,00 acres (336,698 hectares) at the turn of the century, populated scarcely 275,000 acres (111,288 hectares) last year, and California has ...