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 ...

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 ...

The Mixon brothers of SunnyRidge Farms fame announce strategic hire to lead a renewed interest in citrus -- this time with ...

Built in 1955 to showcase the region’s robust vast expanse of groves, it overlooked hundreds of acres of perfectly planted rows of citrus. Today, the orange-and-white tower is one of Florida’s ...

Some Florida citrus growers are depending on genetically ... Valencia orange trees tower overhead, with flecks of orange and yellow peeking through leafy green branches. Thirty-two-year-old ...

The major local landmark is the 226-foot-tall, 60-year-old Florida Citrus Tower. Local economy is good.

According to state and federal data, Florida's unemployment rate inched up by 0.1% in April to 3.7%, still lower than the ...

MARION COUNTY, Fla. — Florida citrus production has dropped more than 90% in less than three decades, and growers want lawmakers to help. Otherwise, they say nearly 1,500 citrus growers in ...

TALLAHASSEE — A new federal report says Florida's struggling citrus industry already was expected to produce less fruit during the 2024-2025 growing season. And that was before Hurricane Milton ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Pointing to Florida’s decades-long fight with deadly citrus greening disease and damage from hurricanes, a major grower Monday announced it will “wind down” citrus ...

CLERMONT — Here, where the Florida Citrus Tower offers panoramic views of big-box retailers and backyard pool cages built atop the former orange groves, the 19-year-old college student vexing ...

Fred Gmitter, a geneticist at the University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center, holds an orange affected by citrus greening disease at a grove in Fort Meade, Fla., on Sept.