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3 weeks ago | 
growingproduce.com | Paul Rusnak
It’s only been a little more than four months since the highly impactful 2024 Atlantic hurricane season wrapped up. And here we are already looking toward the horizon to see what the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season will bring. Last season provided several major tropical punches that landed squarely on the jaws of communities near and far.
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3 weeks ago | 
growingproduce.com | Paul Rusnak
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson has announced longtime berry industry leader Wish Farms as the 2025 winner of the Agricultural-Environmental Leadership Award. Wish Farms is a fourth-generation, family-owned company based in Plant City, FL.
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4 weeks ago | 
growingproduce.com | Paul Rusnak
The spring season is usually ripe for weather extremes. This year is setting up to fit that trend across the U.S. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center recently released its 2025 U.S. Spring Outlook. The coming months (April-June) will likely feature many specials across the extreme weather menu. However, drought appears to be the largest growing concern. Farming operations that ramp up production during this time will be watching closely.
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1 month ago | 
greenhousegrower.com | Paul Rusnak
It’s time again for the world’s best agriculture colleges to stand up and be counted. Who’s at the head of the class? Some schools stand out more than others, according to Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), which has just released its latest QS World University Ranking by Subject report.
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Not ranked in Top 50 of last year's QS by subject list. Click here to learn more about this school.
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2 months ago | 
greenhousegrower.com | Paul Rusnak
If it seemed like there were a lot of extreme weather events in the last year, it’s because there were. According to NOAA, the U.S. was impacted by 27 different billion-dollar weather/climate disasters in 2024. Many of these natural disasters directly affected agriculture operations. American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) has released its latest crop and rangeland damage estimates.
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2 months ago | 
growingproduce.com | Paul Rusnak
If it seemed like there were a lot of extreme weather events in the last year, it’s because there were. According to NOAA, the U.S. was impacted by 27 different billion-dollar weather/climate disasters in 2024. Many of these natural disasters directly affected agriculture operations. American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) has released its latest crop and rangeland damage estimates.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
growingproduce.com | Paul Rusnak
It hasn’t been all that long since I was reporting on the devastation multiple hurricanes left behind for Florida’s agricultural sector. While weather extremes are nothing new for growers here in the Sunshine State, a recent rare winter storm and extended cold snap threw a curveball. An Arctic airmass has been keeping a grip on most of the entire eastern half of the U.S. for the better part of January.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
greenhousegrower.com | Paul Rusnak
Make way for a new world record holder! According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists, 2024 is now officially the Earth’s warmest year on record. The previous record holder (2023) only had it for one year. Stats show Earth’s average land and ocean surface temperature in 2024 was 2.32°F above the 20th-century average — the highest global temperature among all years in NOAA’s 1850-2024 climate record. It turned out to only be a scant warmer (0.18°F) than 2023.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
growingproduce.com | Paul Rusnak
Make way for a new world record holder! According to NOAA scientists, 2024 is now officially the Earth’s warmest year on record. The previous record holder (2023) only had it for one year. Stats show Earth’s average land and ocean surface temperature in 2024 was 2.32°F above the 20th-century average — the highest global temperature among all years in NOAA’s 1850-2024 climate record. It turned out to only be a scant warmer (0.18°F) than 2023. But it still counts.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
growingproduce.com | Paul Rusnak
Fort Myers, FL-based Alico Inc. is looking to take its business in a new direction. The longtime leaders in Florida citrus production and beyond announced it will wind down its Alico Citrus division to focus on its long-term diversified land usage and real estate development strategy. Alico’s citrus division has faced increasing financial challenges in recent times. This primarily from HLB (aka, citrus greening) and environmental factors, including multiple major hurricanes, for many seasons.
