Florida citrus industry sees little freeze damage
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Florida's orange groves emerged mostly unscathed from unusually low temperatures overnight, the state's largest growers association said Thursday.
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CEO James Balsillie doesn't seem too worried about the long term effects from the company's recent 3-hour outage this week.
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The hurricanes of August and September did even more damage to the state&#39;s citrus crop than first predicted, federal officials said.
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Citrus growers will harvest the smallest crop since 1993 because of three hurricanes that ravaged the state and damaged groves locally and statewide, the Florida Department of Citrus said Tuesday.
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Florida&#39;s orange crop dropped to its lowest level in 13 years while the grapefruit crop sank to its lowest point in 69 years. The projected 2004-05 orange crop fell to 168 million
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Florida secretary of state says an independent review revealed no evidence of error in a tight November race that handed Republican Vern Buchanan the victory over Democrat Christine Jennings by a margin of 239 votes. By the Associated Press.
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Normally at this time of the year, labor contractor Jose Luis Avalos would be assembling a crew of workers who could each earn &#36;1,500 to &#36;2,000 a week in the area's abundant citrus groves.
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U.S. industrial production was flat in January as warm weather dampened demand for heating, but manufacturing output remained healthy, a government report showed on Wednesday.
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By DAVID HUNT  On the banks of Sisters Creek, Jacksonville slows down.  Boats drift, insects buzz. White ibises glide through the sticky Florida heat. "Everything here, 360 degrees, will stay like this forever," said Mark Middlebrook, president of the North Florida Land Trust.
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President Bush comforted residents in hurricane-battered Florida for the fifth time in six weeks on Wednesday, delivering sympathy and promises of aid to hard-hit citrus growers in a crucial part of the politically vital state.
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A winter storm delivered a White Christmas to parts of the Midwest, causing some traffic accidents and flight delays but no major problems with fewer travelers taking to the roads and sky on Tuesday.
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Florida growers will pick far fewer oranges and grapefruits this season than last after hurricanes devastated crops in the state, where most US citrus is grown, the government said Tuesday.
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Gov. Charlie Crist said he did not expect serious opposition from utilities in Florida, where 28 percent of the electricity is produced by coal, a fuel that produces high levels of heat-trapping gases.
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On Sunday, the conference championship games will be played in frigid, if not severe conditions. But no scheduling changes are likely to take place.
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Nat Roberts watched with sympathy as Hurricane Charley blew in from the Gulf Coast three weeks ago and ripped through groves in southwest Florida, causing losses of up to 20 percent for next year's Florida citrus crop. The hurricane spared Roberts' property, safely located across the state on the Atlantic Coast, but his 4,000 acres of grapefruit and orange groves now face a similar danger from Hurricane Frances.
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The first cold wave of the season brought an early white Christmas to much of the East on Monday and kept winter-haven states like Florida in an icy grip.
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The European Union said Wednesday it was looking forward to including Florida oranges and other U.S. products in its system of protecting traditional regional foods following a World Trade Organization ruling on the issue.