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The Mission Citrus Growers Union Packing Shed in Mission, Texas, also known as Edinburg Citrus Association and as Growers Select Produce Packing Shed, is a historic packing house. It was built in 1944. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1]
“You can’t get that juice or aroma anywhere else in the world,” Doug Feek said as he squeezed a Valencia orange grown on his 1,300-acre orange grove located about 6 miles from his citrus ...
A look at total Florida citrus-growing acreage provides a tangible impression to the hardships citrus greening provides; in 2000 there was 665,529 commercially producing citrus acres, while in 2011 there were 473,086 commercially producing citrus acres in Florida. [17] Every year citrus reports indicate a continued loss of citrus production.
Growers from Los Angeles County, Orange County, and Riverside County were among the original members and later expanded to growers and groves in San Bernardino and Ventura Counties. By 1905, the exchange represented 5,000 members, 45% of the California citrus industry, and renamed itself the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Between 1927 and ...
The historic cold snap that has frozen Texas this week with brutal winter weather and brought snow all the way to beaches along the Gulf of Mexico is also bringing headaches for citrus growers at ...
If you are flying in the spring of 2023 and do not have a Real ID-compliant driver’s license, fret not. The Department of Homeland Security has pushed back enforcement from May 3, 2023 to May 7 ...
Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae. Plants in the genus produce citrus fruits, including important crops such as oranges, mandarins, lemons, grapefruits, pomelos, and limes. Citrus is native to South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Melanesia, and Australia. Indigenous people in these areas have used and ...
In 2005, Limoneira made a cross-equity agreement with Calavo Growers where Limoneira got a 6.9 stake of Calavo while Calavo got a 15.1 stake in Limoneira. [22] In 2013, Limoneira acquired Associated Citrus Packers, Inc. of Yuma, Arizona for $18.6 million. [23] In 2014, it acquired Marlin Ranching Company for $1.4 million. [24]