The state created protocols to protect Florida’s cattle herds from the parasitic fly after it was found in Texas earlier this week.

The Florida Legislature has approved a state budget allocating $425 million to the Rural and Family Lands Protection Program, marking the largest single-year funding injection in the program’s history.

In a year with no hurricanes, most Floridians have been thankful to not have to board up windows, evacuate to higher ground or stock up on flashlights and bottled water. But for Florida’s agricultural sector, months without rain have caused other problems.

Farmers and industry leaders are hoping for federal aid and insurance policy changes to relieve multibillion-dollar losses.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Damages to farmers and ranchers from Hurricane Milton may double the statewide agricultural destruction from three other storms that pummeled Florida since August 2023, according to state Department of Agriculture and Consumer ...

Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Wilton Simpson on Thursday estimated the damage from Hurricane Milton alone at well over $1 billion. (Photo courtesy of Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services ...

Florida will oversee $675.9 million in federal money to help the state’s agriculture industry recover from hurricane damage in 2023 and 2024. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins traveled to CPI citrus groves in Hendry County on Monday to ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Hurricane Milton singlehandedly wrecked as much havoc on Florida's agriculture as three other major hurricanes combined, according to new estimates from the ...

Florida agriculture suffered more than $190 million in losses from Hurricane Milton, making it the costliest for farmers and ranchers of three cyclones that pummeled the state in 2024, according to University of Florida researchers. When all the data is in ...