Pest and Disease

The Citrus Pest and Disease Prevention Division invites growers and industry members in Riverside County and surrounding areas to attend a virtual grower meeting on Friday, Aug. 21 at 9 a.m. The [...]

 Effective July 31, 2020, bulk citrus fruit may be shipped directly to a packinghouse or processor located within a Huanglongbing (HLB) quarantine area without meeting the Asian citrus psyllid [...]

Dear California Citrus Growers, We would like to share with you the status of promising preliminary research that possibly could have important ramifications for California citrus growers. Dr. [...]

On Thursday, July 9, 2020, the House Appropriations Committee voted unanimously to adopt the FY 2021 Appropriation Bill on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and Drug Administration. The [...]

Following several weeks of extensive negotiations, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed the 2020-2021 California budget on June 29th. Included in the budget for a second consecutive [...]

To provide industry members, including field crews, with best practices to prevent the spread of the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) in California’s citrus groves, the Citrus Pest & Disease [...]

Two materials have been added to the updated CDFA document “Information for Growers/Grove Managers in an ACP Bulk Citrus Regional Quarantine Zone or HLB Quarantine Area”.   Fujimite [...]

Effective April 13, 2020, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) will revoke Quarantine Commodity (QC) permit number 1486. QC 1486 originally authorized the intrastate movement [...]

A citrus quarantine expansion has been declared following the detection of the citrus disease Huanglongbing (HLB) in one residential citrus tree in the City of San Bernardino. This is the first [...]