Farm Progress

Photos: Citrus Research Board changes - HLB battle

Cary Blake 1, Editor

September 12, 2013

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Ted Batkin is retiring after 20 years as president of the California Citrus Research Board. Ken Keck, a Florida citrus grower and citrus administrator, takes the helm to guide the CRB fight against the California citrus industry's greatest menaces - the disease Huanglongbing and the Asian citrus psyllid. 

About the Author(s)

Cary Blake 1

Editor, Western Farm Press

Cary Blake, associate editor with Western Farm Press, has 32 years experience as an agricultural journalist. Blake covered Midwest agriculture for 25 years on a statewide farm radio network and through television stories that blanketed the nation.
 
Blake traveled West in 2003. Today he reports on production agriculture in California and Arizona.
 
Blake is a native Mississippian, graduate of Mississippi State University, and a former Christmas tree grower.

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