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A major grower said this week it was abandoning its citrus growing operations, reflecting the headwinds Florida's signature crops are facing following a series of hurricanes and tree diseases.
Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts the Sunshine State’s orange production to be off more than 33% when compared to the 2023-2024 harvesting season. Florida growers are ...
Orange juice prices 1973 - 2022 Citrus greening was first found in 2005 in the US and has cut the Orange tree production in half [2] [3] Citrus greening disease [4] (Chinese: 黃龍病; pinyin: huánglóngbìng abbr. HLB) [5] is a disease of citrus caused by a vector-transmitted pathogen. The causative agents are motile bacteria, Liberibacter spp.
Beyond Florida, the disease was discovered in the Gulf states and reached as far north as South Carolina. It took more than 20 years to eradicate that outbreak of citrus canker, from 1913 through 1931, $2.5 million in state and private funds were spent to control it—a sum equivalent to $28 million in 2000 dollars. [ 17 ]
About 95% of commercial orange production in the state is destined for processing (mostly as orange juice, the official state beverage). The top 5 citrus-producing counties , according to data in 2019, was "DeSoto (12.8 million boxes), Polk (12.5 million boxes), Highlands (10.8 million boxes), Hendry (10.5 million boxes) and Hardee (8.16 ...
Bad weather and a citrus crop disease are leading to bitter orange juice prices for consumers. ... Florida's orange crop is expected to come in at 713,000 tons, the smallest since the 1936-1937 ...
Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) is a viral species of the genus Closterovirus that causes the most economically damaging disease to its namesake plant genus, Citrus.The disease has led to the death of millions of Citrus trees all over the world and has rendered millions of others useless for production. [1]
“Orange juice prices are rising because of the three Ds: Drought, Disease [and] Demand,” Dave Reiter, a trader for Reiter Capital Investments, told CNBC in an email. “When most people think ...