…been added. New additions for 2017 will include grapefruit, lemons and oranges. For example, under the Contract Price Addendum, a producer in Nebraska can use a contract price for millet…
Agri View: Cost of Food
…“There’s a greening problem in Florida that’s devastating the orange crops.” Last year, Florida produced just half of the oranges it had a decade earlier. According to information on the…
A Brief History of the Navel Orange in California – From the Sacramento Bee
…$20,000 one year, an astonishing sum in the 1880s. By the 1904-05 growing season, 31,422 railroad carloads of Washington navel oranges were shipped out of California to the rest of…
Wet Weather Doesn’t Hinder Citrus Harvest
…81 million cartons, produced on fewer acres and yielding somewhat smaller fruit, the U.S. Department of Agriculture crop survey predicts. The forecast includes conventional, organic and specialty navel oranges, including…
Citrus Crop Forecast Has Slight Changes for California
Mark Hudson, USDA/NASS (National Agricultural Statistics Service), Washington, D.C. released the January citrus crop forecast reflecting a slight drop in California non-Valencia oranges with a slight increase in Valencia oranges….
The California Kitchen: Ponche
…1 cup chopped prunes (packed) 6 oranges, washed, sliced (with peel on) 6 cinnamon sticks 7 quarts’ water 2 cups brown sugar Rum To get the cooking directions, listen to…
Citrus Forecast: No Changes for California
Mark Hudson, USDA/National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Washington, D.C., reported the December citrus forecast. Although Florida oranges dropped another 5 million boxes, there were no changes in the reported numbers…
Agri View: Satsuma Oranges
…1935 a devastating freeze killed most of the trees and the crop just vanished. Everett Griner talks about this quaint orange making a comeback in today’s Agri View. Satsuma Oranges…
Pacific Region Field Crop Review
…oranges more than offset price decreases for peaches and strawberries. Vegetable and melon: At 107, the index for September is up 0.9 percent from the previous month and 14 percent…
Register Today for HLB Early Detection Technology Summit
HLB on oranges. Photo courtesy of USDA. Early detection technologies can become valuable tools for identifying huanglongbing (HLB) positive trees before physical symptoms of the disease appear. A massive amount…
Trans-Pacific Partnership and Japan
…The 32-percent tariff on oranges will be eliminated over eight years. Japan’s 43-percent tariff on orange juice will be eliminated in 11 years. The 30-percent tariff on grapefruit juice will…
Citrus Crop Forecast: No Changes for California
…drop of 6 million boxes total in Valencia and non-Valencia oranges due to higher fruit drop and smaller fruit size. Citrus Crop Forecast USDA/NASS November Forecast Citrus Maturity Test Results…
Proposal to Revoke Chlorpyrifos Food Residue Tolerances
…control pests which threaten more than 60 different crops in California, including almonds, alfalfa, walnuts, oranges, cotton and grapes. Earlier this year, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation changed the…
Florida Citrus and the Consumer Market
When reaching for oranges, tangerine, grapefruits or orange juice, you may find this season and well into next year that there are less Florida citrus products on the supermarket shelf….