Article: Fight against Agricultural Pests May Shift from Federal Government to States.

Article: Federal government pledges $200 million to fight ...
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  October 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... 54 million to keep Florida's citrus-canker eradication campaign in high-gear, the federal government has come through with another ... funded by the state, not the federal government -- is essentially on hold. While ...

Article: Chippers may fuel citrus canker.
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  May 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Pacumbaba, who studied citrus canker in the Philippines, said ... exacerbating the spread of citrus canker." State officials conceded ... late 1990s, a leading citrus-canker researcher with the federal government warned it could spread ...

Article: Sen. Paula Hawkins announces that the U.S. Treasury has written ...
PR Newswire;  April 3, 1986 ;     599 words ... ... promised them by the federal government," said Sen. Hawkins ... checks fulfills the federal government's previous commitment ... the infestation of citrus canker that has plagued ... citrus industry. The federal government has fulfilled its ...

Article: Spread of citrus canker concerns Florida farmers; ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  February 26, 2006 ;     495 words ... ... state's crops and farming infrastructure, they are believed to have spread citrus canker that threatens the state's signature citrus crops. The federal government said last month that the fight against canker was hopeless and yanked its ...

Article: Florida citrus canker eradication fighters out of ...
Ledger (Lakeland, Florida);  September 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... LAKE ALFRED -- The Citrus Canker Eradication Program ... 1, unless the federal government or the Legislature ... chairman of the Citrus Canker Technical Advisory ... over whether the federal government will compensate his ...

Article: QLD: Citrus canker compensation debate rages on
AAP General News (Australia);  June 24, 2005 ;     516 words ... ... a series of citrus canker outbreaks has ... shared by the federal government, the citrus ... chaired by the federal government and oversees the citrus canker response, for ... supported by the federal government, and other ...

Article: No end to citrus canker epidemic in sight.
Ledger (Lakeland, Florida);  August 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Florida, the fight against citrus canker seems never-ending. As ... with the state-federal Citrus Canker Eradication Program expressed ... million a year Q: What is the Citrus Canker Eradication Program? A ... for plant material. The federal government has assumed the much ...