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The new Program Director of Florida’s Citrus Research and Field Trial (CRAFT) program Tamara Wood gives details on the effort to encourage planting and reveal promising varieties and rootstocks and production practices in the HLB-era. To date, the program is responsible for more than 4,000 acres of new plantings.
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