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Advice Of A Florida Citrus Grower To A California Grower
« on: March 18, 2015, 05:39:33 PM »
Q: What advice would you give California growers and its citrus industry about dealing with HLB and its vector?

A: The first thing I would tell them is try to learn from Florida as well as Brazil. I think they are in a certain state of denial just like we were in denial. We as Florida citrus growers were full of reasons why this disease was going to be worse in Brazil than in Florida, then we in Central Florida thought the disease wasn't going to be as bad here as it was in South Florida. We were all wrong. When I first went to Brazil, they were spraying 10 times a year as well as rouging infected trees. The rouging didn't work in the small groves of Florida, but the spraying does.

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