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Citrus season ends on sour note
Published: July 12, 2021 9:24 PM EDT
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Florida’s beleaguered citrus growers ended the 2020-2021 growing season Monday with a yield below what had already been expected to be one of the lowest in decades.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Florida growers produced enough oranges mostly for orange juice to fill 52.8 million 90-pound boxes, the industry standard, during the season that began late last summer.
The total is up slightly from a June forecast of 52.7 million boxes but below preseason expectations that growers would fill 57 million boxes. The current crop is also down from 67.3 million boxes in the 2019-2020 season.
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