{"id":399,"date":"2017-10-13T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/newsroom\/?post_type=fdoc-news-item&amp;p=399"},"modified":"2017-10-13T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T14:25:06","slug":"gov-scott-meets-with-florida-congressional-delegation-members-to-urge-action-for-citrus-industry","status":"publish","type":"fdoc-news-item","link":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/fdoc-news-item\/gov-scott-meets-with-florida-congressional-delegation-members-to-urge-action-for-citrus-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Scott Meets with Florida Congressional Delegation Members to Urge Action for Citrus Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 11, 2017, in News Releases, by Staff<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2017\/10\/11\/gov-scott-meets-with-florida-congressional-delegation-members-to-urge-action-for-citrus-industry\/\">Full article available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Governor Rick Scott, joined by Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, met with members of the Florida congressional delegation to discuss Hurricane Irma and Florida\u2019s citrus industry. It\u2019s estimated that Hurricane Irma caused more than $2.5 billion in losses for Florida\u2019s agriculture industry, including more than $760 million in losses for Florida citrus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Governor Scott activated a $25 million Florida Citrus Emergency Loan Program to support citrus growers impacted by Hurricane Irma. Learn more about the program HERE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is the\u00a0full\u00a0excerpt of the Governor\u2019s remarks as prepared for delivery from today in Washington:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\t<li>With Floridians ready to get back to their normal lives, it is time for Florida to rebuild.<\/li>\n\t<li>Today, I\u2019m here to urge you to work together and pass legislation to facilitate the rebuilding process. As you know, Florida prides itself in our incredible and iconic citrus industry. Florida\u2019s world famous citrus industry has been negatively affected by the impacts of Irma \u2013 with an estimated more than $760 million in losses alone in citrus, and more than $2.5 billion in losses in total for the Florida agricultural industry.<\/li>\n\t<li>Floridians deserve to be made whole again after this catastrophic storm, and I urge you to work with your colleagues to help Florida with the losses accrued in our citrus and agriculture industries. Florida farmers are a tough, hardworking group not looking for a government handout.<\/li>\n\t<li>This industry was already struggling from the impacts of citrus greening and we cannot let Irma decimate our industry long-term.###<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 11, 2017, in News Releases, by StaffFull article available here. WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Governor Rick Scott, joined by Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, met with members of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","fdoc_news_item_category":[91,86,100,85,90],"fdoc_citrus_type":[110,107],"fdoc_health_category":[],"class_list":["post-399","fdoc-news-item","type-fdoc-news-item","status-publish","hentry","fdoc_news_item_category-florida-hurricanes","fdoc_news_item_category-hurricane-irma","fdoc_news_item_category-industry","fdoc_news_item_category-weather","fdoc_news_item_category-weather-information","fdoc_citrus_type-grapefruit","fdoc_citrus_type-orange"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fdoc-news-item"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fdoc_news_item_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_news_item_category?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_citrus_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_citrus_type?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_health_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_health_category?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}