Florida citrus production faces sour predictions for 2020-21 season
The state s current predicted production is also down 23% from last year. In the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s most recent estimate of orange production, Florida fell behind California as it continues to see declines in predicted production a telling sign of how the Sunshine State’s citrus industry is faring.
The USDA predicted a 7% decrease from March for all Florida orange production, from 55.5 million boxes to 51.7 million boxes, according to a
monthly report released Friday. The state’s current predicted production is also down 23% from last year’s season.
The forecast predicts the number of 90-pound boxes the industry will produce in the 2020-2021 growing season, which ends in July.
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Florida orange production got a slight bounce Tuesday, with the February forecast up 3.7 percent from a January projection, according to a report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Production of oranges in Florida continues to drop. Overall, production is now forecast to be down nearly 20 percent from the 2019-2020 growing season.