SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AAA is forecasting a record 70.9 million Americans will be traveling over the Fourth of July as summer travel hits a record high, and agricultural officials are ...

With scientists fearing that citrus greening is impossible to wipe out, the agriculture department has decided on a one-two punch that emphasizes control rather than eradication of the disease. To ...

Feb. 13—Bakersfield homeowner Lourdes Cahue had three choices regarding the orange tree that had grown into a problem in her backyard off Karen Place. But only two of them were practical because ...

In the late 1990s, scientists from the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture were working in south Africa on a programme to help table grape exporters apply the sterile ...

1. Biological control has traditionally simplified the view of trophic relationships between herbivorous pests and their natural enemies in agriculture. The success or failure of this pest management ...

A pest that is deadly to citrus trees has once again been spotted in San Luis Obispo County. The County Department of Agriculture said this week that it has found adult Asian citrus psyllids in insect ...

June 28 (Reuters) - New European Union pest control rules will cut South Africa's orange exports to Europe by 20% this year, threatening thousands of jobs, the Citrus Growers Association (CGA) has ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO – The Board of Supervisors voted ...

Gardeners in just about all areas of Orange County were noticing a new pest this summer on their citrus trees. Nurseries and garden centers throughout the county are being overrun with inquiries about ...

Jim Gorden stops his truck at the edge of one of his orange groves in Tulare County in the foothills of California’s Sierra Mountains. After 50 years as a citrus grower and pest control advisor in the ...

The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) can spread the lethal and incurable citrus disease known as huanglongbing or citrus greening that threatens the multi-billion dollar global citrus industry. In 2011, for ...