The Rise, Fall, and Future of Florida's Citrus Industry

Florida's citrus growers have battled freezes, diseases, and hurricanes for 150 years and never given up. After an 1895 freeze almost destroyed the industry, they fought back and replanted. A series of freezes in the 1980s again devastated the industry, but they fought back and replanted. Since then, the citrus canker and citrus greening diseases h...