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FILE - Oranges lie rotting on the ground in a field in Immokalee, Florida, after Hurricane Wilma tore through the area on October 24, 2005, causing extensive damage to the states citrus crop.
A contractor is facing thousands in proposed penalties after a 41-year-old employee collapsed while harvesting oranges at a Florida farm and died of heatstroke, federal labor officials announced.
"We got a food crisis that's going to happen here," said Richey, the president and CEO of Riverfront Packing Company in central Florida. Oranges take about 15 months to grow — often consumed in ...
Their children grew up playing on the beach and picking oranges off trees in the yard. My mother left Florida as an adult, but two of her brothers remained in Stuart. And for most of my childhood ...