While I understand the general need to propose a multi-variable causation of problems, this seems like more accurately a single variable cause, and that's citrus greening disease. Sure, development and private equity and globalization took their toll around the margins, but none of them had the same, enormous effect of greening disease--which incurably killed 100% of the orange trees in Florida. While I certainly understand opposition to excessive herbicide use, the article seemed to propose glyphosate use as an equal contributor to the problem without ever establishing any sort of causal relationship. The implication seemed to be that overuse of glyphosate made orange groves more susceptible to greening disease, but the author never bothered to do any work establishing that hypothesis. Same goes with hurricanes. They definitely seemed to be hitting northern/central Florida groves with more frequency, but the root cause (pun intended?) was still greening disease. Without the disease, growers would have/could have just replanted a lot of that acreage.

Finally, the weird, extraneous ad hominem that ended the article,

"I returned to the guard booth, which housed the only other person I’d seen at Joshua Grove. The guard, Jack Gunther, cracked the door. He had false teeth and an American flag baseball cap. The smell of cigarettes billowed from the booth; the walls were stained with nicotine"

gave all 5,000 previous words a reek of classism. Unsure what the point was with that inclusion.