Squeeze ’em while you got ’em: Florida’s orange crop “increased slightly while grapefruit production held steady,” theĀ Florida Department of Citrus announced Wednesday. That news is according to the final forecast for the 2016-17 season by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Florida orange production went up a bit andĀ grapefruit production leveled off, accordingĀ to the latest forecast by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. The Florida Department of Citrus announced the estimates Friday. “The June report projects the stateās orange crop to increase by 500,000 boxes toĀ 68.5 million for the 2016-17 season,” its press release said. “The grapefruit crop held steady at 7.8 million boxes and tangelos dipped slightly by 10,000 to 1.62 million.” The monthly forecasts, however, are…
Another bag of mixed news for Florida’s signature crops:Ā Orange production actually increased while grapefruit productionĀ has declined. That’s according to the latest forecast released Wednesday from theĀ the U.S. Department of Agriculture’sĀ National Agricultural Statistics Service, or NASS. “The May report projects the stateās orange crop to increase toĀ 68 million boxes for the 2016-17 season,” said a press releaseĀ from theĀ Florida Department of Citrus (FDOC). “The grapefruit cropĀ dipped to 7.8Ā million boxes.” The department, funded mainly through box taxes paid by the stateās citrus growers,…
The bad news in citrus: “Grapefruit production declined.” The good news: “Florida orange production remained steady.” That’s the upshot of the latest forecast by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, according to the Florida Department of Citrus (FDOC). “The April report projects the stateās orange crop to stay at 67 million boxes for the 2016-17 season,” a Tuesday news release said. “The grapefruit crop was reduced by 800,000 boxes to 8.1 million.” The industry has been savagedĀ by…
Are we sure it doesn’t count? Is there any way we can make it count? After all, fans have waited years for the Tampa Bay Rays to hit like this ā 23 hits including five home runs. And the team hasn’t pitched like this very often ā seven perfect innings and a shutout. It all added up to a 19-0 squashing of Minnesota is a grapefruit league victory Tuesday. Alex Cobb threw two perfect innings in the game. Curt Casali,…
Florida’s production of orange crop will hold steady at 72 million boxes for the 2016-17 season, theĀ U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Friday. The “all orange” forecast, equal toĀ 3.24 million tons, is “unchanged from last month butĀ down 12 percent from last season’s final utilization,” the department’s latest forecast says. Moreover, the Florida frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) forecast for 2016-2017 is “down 2 percentĀ from last month but up 2 percent from last season’s final yield ofĀ 1.41 gallons per box.” But theĀ report…
Hats off to the Florida Department of Agriculture for successfully pimping out Florida grapefruits to South Korea. According to the department, Florida grapefruit sales to South Korea jumped to a historic high of nearly $5 million last year, representing a 44 percent increase from 2013. Now this isnāt necessarily because South Koreans are citrus-hungry and health-savvy, itās because they like grapefruit-flavored booze. Part of the increase in grapefruit sales to South Korea is attributed to a partnership in the country…
