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Florida's Natural Growers is an agricultural cooperative based in Lake Wales, Florida.It is currently owned by over 1,100 grower members. It was the only national orange juice maker that used only US-grown fruit (grown by its cooperative members in Florida) in its products; however, this policy changed starting in May 2022. [2]
John Andrew Snively (1889 – January 22, 1958) was an American farmer, businessman, and pioneering citrus grower in Florida and Georgia. At his height, his companies were responsible for one-third of the Florida citrus crop. [1]
TheSugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida dates began in the 1950s when 16 farmers met to discuss joining together with other farmers in the Glades Area, west of West Palm Beach, Florida, and southeast of Lake Okeechobee, to form a farming cooperative. In July 1960, 54 farmer-members chartered Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida.
Donald Duck is an American brand of frozen and refrigerated orange juice that is owned by the Florida's Natural Growers agricultural cooperative, which was known as Citrus World from 1969 to 1998, and before that as the Florida Citrus Canners Cooperative.
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In 1933, Griffin left the University of Florida, after three years and without earning a degree, to find a job during the Great Depression. [3] He unsuccessfully sought work in New York City, then returned home to Frostproof, Florida and began his business with a 10-acre (4.0 ha) orange grove, a wedding gift from his father, and built it into a citrus business empire.
The Florida Strawberry Growers Association represents growers here. [3] Strawberry gray mold is economically important. [4] This is the Botrytis Fruit Rot of strawberries caused by Botrytis cinerea. [4] Growers here ship strawberries December to April. [3] The state's Strawberry Festival is held in March every year in Plant City.
Many compared the economic impact of the Great Freeze on Florida to the effects of the Great Fire on the city of Chicago. [9] In the wake of the Great Freeze, some growers simply abandoned their Florida groves to return to the North. A few went to search for frost-free locations in the Caribbean such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. [10]