In a first-of-its-kind collaboration in Texas, three well-established and highly respected wineries have joined forces to create a new winery—4.0 Cellars—and tasting room in the Texas Hill Country to showcase their respective wines as well as to create new wines under the 4.0 Cellars label....More

The disease was detected in an Asian citrus psyllid sample and plant material taken from a lemon/pummelo tree in a residential neighborhood in the Hacienda Heights area of California’s Los Angeles County....More

Less than two months after Texas—and the United States at large—were declared free of the citrus-destroying Mexican fruit fly, a mated female Mex Fly was discovered in a trap in Cameron County Mar. 2, forcing USDA- APHIS to implement an 81 square mile regulated area to contain the pest and to initiate rules on how the Valley citrus industry must deal with the new development....More

Recent rains greatly improved soil-moisture levels in much of the state, according to reports from Texas AgriLife Extension Service county agents....More