A handful of individual food producers around the world already use labels certifying their food is free of genetically modified elements -- but this is the first large-scale political effort to introduce such a system, Greenpeace says, expecting it to be watched by others as a test-case. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow next week introduces a city-wide label to identify GM-free foods, a move ecologists hail as ground-breaking but which foreign producers say is complex and costly. Make Y! your...

New UF computer system could one day help citrus growers count fruit before harvest Farmers are told not to count chickens before they hatch, but for citrus growers it s a little different knowing how much fruit is on their trees can help them make better decisions about managing and harvesting the crop. New UF computer system could one day help citrus growers count fruit before harvest Farmers are told not to count chickens before they hatch, but for citrus growers it s a little different...

For 2007-08, more than $9 million in industry, state and federal funding has been set aside for research into citrus canker and greening, and the amount could reach $12 million if everything requested is approved, Arnold said. While citrus canker can be controlled somewhat with copper sprays, Bov said there is no chemical known to control greening. There was more bad news for the industry - which has an economic impact of $9 billion - in fresh figures from the state Department of...

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Department of Agriculture temporarily barred shipments of citrus-nursery trees from Florida to any other state in an effort to limit the spread of citrus canker, a contagious fungal disease that has infected some of the state's crop. Florida's $9 billion citrus industry has taken a beating in recent years from hurricanes and diseases. They already have put in place a comprehensive series of restrictions to prevent the shipping of citrus trees infected by canker and other pests. Our...

The moth has since been found in nine California counties, including Napa, where the discovery of one specimen set off alarm bells for winemakers and farmers in the grape region. Perhaps the most well known invasive pest was the Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly, which prompted a statewide panic and aerial spraying in the early 1980s, when it appeared to threaten the state's billion-dollar citrus industry. The problem seems even more serious to the south in Santa Cruz County, where nearly...