To determine ripeness, taste for sweetness instead of going by the color of the skin. For the best flavor, harvest citrus after the fruit has been exposed to a light frost. Use pruners to cut the ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Winter is peak season for harvesting citrus and the orchards of Fresno County are ripe for the clipping. "The eating quality has been excellent, it's an early maturity year," ...

FOWLER, California (KFSN) -- The holidays aren't the only reason to get excited about winter, it is peak season for many citrus crops. Bee Sweet Citrus grows more than 10 thousand acres of oranges, ...

Q. When is citrus fruit ready to harvest? A. Florida uses five indexes to determine maturity of citrus, including soluble solids, juice content, acid level, soluble solids/acid ratio and skin color.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s citrus industry experienced its worst growing season since World War II as the hurricane-battered harvest is now essentially complete. The latest forecast numbers from ...

Hurricane Milton cut harvest season short just as central Florida citrus growers were becoming more optimistic about the future of their industry. The Category 3 hurricane struck some of the state’s ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. — Florida citrus crops are down this season. "Every year has been worse, and this year was not going to be the best," Jimmy Hayes said. Hayes works at the TerMarsch Groves roadside ...

The overall citrus forecast rose 5% in May compared with last month’s expected annual harvest, according to Thursday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture monthly forecast. The forecast for Valencia ...

LOS ANGELES and DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / July 20, 2020 / Grapefruit USA, Inc., (OTCQB:GPFT) ("Grapefruit" or the "Company"), a California based cannabis company, is announcing the ...

In this video, Thanh shares his experience of harvesting grapefruit in a remote mountainous area of northern Vietnam. The ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- At this time of year, Philip C. "Flip" Gates Jr.'s grapefruit trees should be heavy with ripe fruit, and enshrouded with so many leaves their canopies are opaque. But for citrus ...