Matt Mattia used both hands to flip through the branch at his eye level, studying each side of every leaf as sunlight filtered from above.

On either side of a sandy dirt road, Valencia orange trees tower overhead with flecks of orange and yellow peeking through leafy green branches. Morgan McKenna Porter, 32, has spent her whole life ...

A tree that loses branches and foliage in a hurricane ... Hurricane Irma blasted through the state’s orange belt in 2017, Florida’s signature crop already had been on a downward spiral for ...

Florida’s orange crop production just increased slightly, but it’s still on track to be the smallest harvest since 1920.

With huge numbers of people moving into Florida’s orange growing areas ... followed by two hurricanes last year. A tree that loses branches and foliage in a hurricane can take three years ...

But unlike the orange and grapefruit trees that long occupied these rural Florida groves northwest ... A machine simply shakes the tiny beans from the branches when they’re ready to harvest.

With huge numbers of people moving into Florida’s orange growing areas ... followed by two hurricanes last year. A tree that loses branches and foliage in a hurricane can take three years ...

With huge numbers of people moving into Florida’s orange growing areas ... followed by two hurricanes last year. A tree that loses branches and foliage in a hurricane can take three years ...

With huge numbers of people moving into Florida's orange growing areas ... followed by two hurricanes last year. A tree that loses branches and foliage in a hurricane can take three years to ...

“At some point, this isn’t going to be an orange grove anymore,” Murphy, a third-generation grower, says as he gazes at the rows of trees in Lake Wales, Florida. “You look around ...

With huge numbers of people moving into Florida’s orange growing areas ... followed by two hurricanes last year. A tree that loses branches and foliage in a hurricane can take three years ...