Features

Canker outbreak raises public policy issues

Lime growers face the elimination of their trees

Dade County lime grower Herbert Yamamura said his groves were beginning to return a net profit of $2,000 per acre before the canker infestation.

Producing winning quarter horses

Ranch succeeds in a unique equine niche

Bill Benham first learned about the quarter horse business from his father, Ben. Since the late 1980s, Bill has managed the family's horse ranch in Lake County and the beef cattle operation in Osceola County. He has become perhaps the largest quarter horse breeder in the Sunshine State. Although the last sanctioned quarter horse race track closed in Florida nearly a decade ago, Benham has remained successful as a member of the national industry.