The Citrus Tower opened on July 14, 1956, long before these areas and attractions helped sustain the millions of tourists that now visit Florida every year. At the time, the structure stood as the ...

Those catastrophes contributed to a 90% decline in orange production over the past two decades. Citrus groves in Florida, ...

Florida’s earliest groves date to 1565 ... a couple of tourism promoters built a 226-foot spire known as the Citrus Tower. When it opened in 1956, the view it offered of the orange-filled ...

Valencia orange trees tower overhead with flecks of orange and yellow peeking through leafy green branches. Morgan McKenna Porter, 32, has spent her whole life in citrus groves. "The Florida ...

A new genetically engineered tree holds promise to possibly save Florida’s citrus trees from greening disease, a bacterial infection that has devastated the state’s citrus industry.

VERO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Here in Florida, Citrus Greening Disease has devastated the state's iconic citrus industry for years. Over the last few decades, the bacterial disease has been getting ...

Milton threatens to inflict wind damage in the northern two-thirds of Florida’s citrus belt this week, according to Commodity Weather Group. Orange juice futures rose up to 4.3% on Monday due to ...