For La Cañada homeowners used to enjoying backyard-grown oranges and lemons, news of a citrus disease’s recent appearance in Hacienda Heights is raising an alarm. The disease, called huanglongbing, or ...

HACIENDA HEIGHTS, Calif. (AP) – The ubiquitous backyard citrus tree, symbolic of California’s agricultural abundance, is front and center in the battle now under way to save the state’s nearly $2 ...

LA HABRA, Calif. (KABC) -- Inspectors from the California Department of Food and Agriculture were going home-to-home inspecting trees after a devastating citrus disease was detected in La Habra.

University of Florida researchers are using a combination of individual protective covers and plant growth regulators to help ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists at the University of Florida are testing a new type of citrus tree that can fight off the tiny insects responsible for ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announced a new citrus quarantine in Fallbrook after discovering the citrus disease Huanglongbing (HLB). The disease, also known as citrus ...

Local farmers are seeing a decrease in citrus growth, and University of Florida scientists are researching a way to help one of Florida’s biggest crop exports.

LAKE WALES, Fla. (AP) — As Trevor Murphy pulls up to his dad's 20-acre (8-hectare) grove in one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States, he points to the cookie-cutter, one-story homes ...