Asmall army of oddly shaped machines will rumble through Florida citrus groves this winter. Some will shake trees to remove the fruit. Others will crawl along with their lone human driver-harvester ...

LAKELAND -- Little has changed over the past few hundred years in how oranges are picked. Human workers climb up a ladder, handpick the fruit into bags and later dump them into bins. All that could be ...

Richard Escobedo, 53, of the Ivanhoe area, died Jan. 3 when he was struck by a wind machine blade in a citrus orchard. SPECIAL TO THE BEE An employee of the largest citrus grower in the country has ...