Orange juice, once a staple in American kitchens and known for its vitamin C, has seen a dramatic decline in popularity, ...

Citrus was more an aspirational 'C', and while growth has pushed out most groves, speciality farms are adding juice to the industry.

Kuechel will replant the land where he had burning piles of trees, but not with citrus. With hay. Across the Mesa, lonely wind machines that were used to keep the frost away from tangelos and ...

According to the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, In 2021, the citrus industry ...

But while the company relocated, the trees remained. Bradbury diversified his orchard and now sells navel and blood oranges, white, pink and red grapefruit, tangerines, tangelos, pomelos and pink ...

He couldn’t see the horizon over 28,000 acres of trees. Today, he can see that industry crumbling and is setting one of his orchards ablaze.

He said his family was the first and last to plant citrus in Orange. By 1974, his father owned the only farm left in the city. Now he fears Yuma, where they got a fresh start, is “gonna go just like ...