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Miami Herald
March 29, 2018
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, the front-running Republican candidate for governor, faces a court order to pay millions of dollars in damages to 12,000 homeowners in southwest Florida whose citrus trees were confiscated and destroyed under Florida's citrus canker eradication program.
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March 29, 2018
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Tampabay.com
March 29, 2018
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, the front-running Republican candidate for governor, faces a court order to pay millions of dollars in damages to 12,000 homeowners in southwest Florida whose citrus trees were confiscated and destroyed under Florida's citrus canker eradication program.
The News-Press
March 29, 2018
The state of Florida destroyed residential citrus trees in the failed war against citrus canker, without properly compensating homeowners for the loss, says Cape Coral residents Dee and John Klockow, who joined a class-action suit seeking payment for their trees that were cut down. LAURA RUANE/THEÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 28, 2018
A Florida judge is ordering the state agricultural department to immediately pay residents their share from a class-action lawsuit filed after the state ... Lee Circuit Judge Keith Kyle's ruling Tuesday follows a saga in which the state destroyed nearly 34,000 residential trees under the failed citrus cankerÃâà...
Southeast Farm Press
March 28, 2018
“Being in citrus where we have fought hard for 10 years, and we're fighting a losing battle where we're having to lay off people, I see a crop that will provide jobs for those same people,” said McClure, who at one time managed 12,000 acres of prime Indian River citrus and served on the Florida CitrusÃâà...
WPTV.com
March 20, 2018
Growers are optimistic a big rebound is coming thanks to citrus greening research and federal disaster relief. "It's time. We're about to grow this new crop and we could use those funds now so we can stay in business," said Richey. Once that money comes in, expect Florida to be once again, the leader ofÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
March 16, 2018
Thousands of South Florida homeowners whose fruit trees were destroyed in the fight against citrus canker will finally receive compensation checks, ending a 17-year legal and political fight that pitted property rights against the protection of an iconic Florida agricultural product. More than 84,000Ãâà...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
FROSTPROOF, Fla. (AP) — Byron and Cynthia Matteson said they don't plan to give up on their lifelong commitment to citrus, but they agreed they need another cash crop to survive the uncertainties of growing Florida's signature crop. So they were planting bamboo on 35 acres of their Frostproof farm.
Tampabay.com
December 31, 1999
The package includes tax breaks for such things as materials used to repair nonresidential farm buildings and fences and for citrus packing houses that had their businesses interrupted by Hurricane Irma or by the deadly disease citrus greening. Also, tax breaks were included for fuel used to transportÃâà...
