Grapefruit

Blossom-End Clearing of Grapefruit

Mark A. Ritenour and Ed Etxeberria

Cost of Production for Fresh Grapefruit in East Florida (Indian River), 2014/15

Ariel Singerman

Overview of the Grapefruit Market in France

Yan Heng, Mitzey Tejeda, and Lisa House

An Overview of the Grapefruit Market in the U.S.

Lijun (Angelia) Chen and Lisa House

Global grapefruit production has been increasing steadily in the recent decade, reaching a historical record of 6.8 million metric tons in 2018/2019. This publication discusses grapefruit consumption as well as a grapefruit consumer survey in the United States. Written by Lijun (Angelia) Chen and Lisa House, and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department, May 2021.

Cost of Production for Fresh Grapefruit Grown in Indian River, 2015/16

Ariel Singerman

Cost of Production for Fresh Market Grapefruit Grown in Indian River, Florida 2016/17

Ariel Singerman

Chilling Injury of Grapefruit and its Control

Mark A. Ritenour, Huating Dou and Greg T. McCollum

The Health Benefits of Grapefruit Furanocoumarins

Yu Wang and Laura Reuss

An Overview of the Grapefruit Market in South Korea

Yan Heng, Hyeyoung Kim, and Lisa House

Cost of Production for Fresh Market Grapefruit Grown in Indian River, 2017/18

Ariel Singerman

Cost of Producing Fresh Market Grapefruit in Indian River in 2018/19

Ariel Singerman

Cost of Production for Fresh Market Grapefruit Grown in Indian River, 2020/21

Ariel Singerman

This publication presents a summary of the costs of production for fresh market grapefruit grown in the Indian River region during 2020/21. The methodology chosen to collect the data consisted of surveying growers directly to closely reflect growers’ costs in the era of HLB. The total cost of production for fresh grapefruit in Indian River during 2020/21 was $2,999.46 per acre. Typical users of the estimates presented herein include growers and consultants, who use them as a benchmark; property appraisers, who use them to compute the taxes for property owners; and researchers, who use the estimates to evaluate the economic feasibility of potential new technologies.

A Regulation Intrigue: Investigating E. coli’s Path onto Dropped and Drooped Strawberries and Grapefruit

Jessie Erwin

We are pleased to welcome Claudia Pegueros to our FSHN Research Journeys series, which follows graduate students’ research in the Food Science and Human Nutrition program at The University of Florida. Claudia is a food science master’s degree student committed to researching how to make our produce safer. In her research project, she studies E. coli contamination […]

Citrus horticulture expert joins UF Indian River REC

Brad Buck

By ROBIN KOESTOYO FORT PIERCE, Fla.—A scientist with a career invested in Florida citrus production will join the citrus research team from the heart of Florida’s renowned grapefruit production region. A native of Brazil’s famous citrus production region, São Paulo State, Flavia Zambon is the selected candidate for the UF/IFAS Indian River Research and Education […]

2022-2023 UF/IFAS Extension Master Gardener Citrus Picking

Wayne Hobbs

It is winter and the temperatures are dropping, the holiday season is upon us, and citrus across the state is ripening on the trees. In this season of giving, have you ever noticed your backyard orange trees produce just too much fruit for you to eat? If that’s the case, consider having the UF/IFAS Clay […]