1983 Florida Agricultural Hall of Fame
Inductees
Raymond B. Becker’s work on micronutrient
requirements is considered to be as responsible as any
other single factor in the development of the total cattle
industry in Florida and other similar regions of the world.
A second contribution to Florida is his work with citrus
residues that turned a waste product into a multi-million
dollar business by converting leftovers from citrus
processing into dried pulp for cattle feed.
John M. Fox is a pioneer in the development of frozen
concentrated orange juice, as his process proved a viable
means of salvaging freeze-damaged fruit that would
otherwise have been written off as a total loss. As a
result, citrus growers saved millions of dollars by
diverting the fruit scheduled for fresh fruit markets into
the concentrate plants. Expert observers concede that
without the development of frozen concentrated orange
juice, Florida’s citrus industry would never have grown
from the 55-million box crops of Jack Fox’s time to crops
in the neighborhood of 250-million boxes.
