Every December in Southern California, the days get shorter yet brighter — and it’s not Christmas lights or the shifting sun that make the region shine. I’m talking about citrus. Trees heavy with ...

There's a reason that the oranges you see in the store usually aren't rotten - someone at a sorting facility has already looked over all the oranges coming in from the fields, and taken out the ...

The Sunsortai® Sorter Employs a Broad Spectrum of Sensors and Cameras to Detect and Identify Fruit Defects, Even Those Invisible to the Naked Eye RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

Same man. Same job. Totally different situation. When Dan Gunter left in 1992 as executive director of the Florida Department of Citrus, frozen concentrated orange juice was the most widely sold ...

Ray Products Co. Inc. applied creativity in helping Sunkist Growers Inc. upgrade the housing of its SunSort optical citrus sorters. Vacuum formed of virgin and recycled ABS and replacing boxes of ...

Huanglongbing (HLB), also known as citrus greening, poses a severe threat to citrus production worldwide. The disease is caused by the bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (Las), which has been ...

MUKURUKURU MEDIA: LIMPOPO Plans underway to sweeten the legendary Zebediela Citrus Estate Once it was reputed to be the biggest citrus farm in the southern hemisphere, but it’s now on the brink of ...

Trees heavy with citrus fruits that ripen as winter progresses are as much a Southern California holiday tradition as tamales and the Rose Parade. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Every December ...