Green disease squeezes Florida’s citrus growers

• Farmers, scientists look for ways to control the disease-spreading psyllids

By Susan Salisbury / The Bulletin
February 3, 2013

When the citrus tree-killing disease known as greening was detected for the first time in the United States in Homestead, Fla., in August 2005, some feared the end was near for Florida’s signature industry.

Now, more than seven years later, the apocalypse has not occurred, but the disease that....

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