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," ...

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.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Harvest crews have been racing the clock this week - trying to get citrus picked before the next storm comes in. Workers skillfully cleared trees of heirloom oranges at the ...

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 Harvest Citrus Festival returned to Highland on Saturday, March 25. Community Chorus of Redlands’ Oct. 19 concert to feature world premiere 46th annual ‘Art, for Heaven’s Sake!’ show slated at ...

From the News Service of Florida's Jim Turner: The final forecast of the 2016-2017 season for Florida's struggling citrus industry shows the orange crop falling 16 percent from the previous season --- ...

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 ...

VERO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The latest Florida citrus forecast has come out from the USDA and it does not paint a rosy picture for orange and grapefruit growers. Louis Schacht, owner of Schacht Groves, ...