HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. - Hillsborough County Administrator Bonnie Wise has signed an executive order extending the ...

Florida agriculture suffered more than $190 million in losses from Hurricane Milton, making it the costliest for farmers and ...

One reason for the delay: Milton made landfall Oct. 9 on Florida’s west coast near Siesta Key, less than two weeks after ...

UF/IFAS leaders said nearly six million acres of agricultural land were impacted, with an estimated loss between $190 million ...

The total could push the state’s potential crop and livestock losses from hurricanes this year to nearly $1 billion.

The report from the University of Florida lists the highest production losses in vegetables, melons and potatoes, ...

USGS warns that Hurricanes Helene and Milton may have spread over 200 invasive species across Florida and Georgia.

Initial calculations from University of Florida economists estimate ag production losses from Hurricane Milton between $190.4 ...

According to the Hurricane Milton interactive map, the giant applesnail has the potential to spread to Central Florida ...

But the earlier forecast did not factor in the devastation caused by Hurricane Milton, which plowed right through large ...

Florida citrus has absorbed blows from big hurricanes in recent years. Notorious storms like Irma (2017), Ian (2022), Nicole ...

Among species of concern that may have been spread by Helene and Milton are the giant applesnail and the Asian swamp eel ...