date:May 05, 2014
Citrus farmers in Queensland's major growing region are expecting big yield losses this season, more than a year on from record floods.
The Australia Day floods destroyed about 15 per cent of the Wide Bay Burnett's production, which accounts for most of the state's citrus.
This season, tree loss from the floods, frost, a long dry and late rain have reduced yield, skin quality and size.
But fruit quality and prices are high.
One of the region's 70 growers, Timothy Ulcoq, who farms 9,000 trees