{"id":28971,"date":"2024-12-22T18:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/florida-and-oranges-have-been-a-pair-for-decades-now-the-industry-has-sour-prospects\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:02:25","slug":"florida-and-oranges-have-been-a-pair-for-decades-now-the-industry-has-sour-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/florida-and-oranges-have-been-a-pair-for-decades-now-the-industry-has-sour-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida and oranges have been a pair for decades. Now the industry has sour prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricanes and an untreatable tree disease have left a once fruitful citrus industry with little to produce this year<\/p>\n<p>For decades it was the signature taste of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a>: orange juice from the state\u2019s plentiful groves advertised to a thirsty nation as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=502158157739997\">your daily dose of sunshine<\/a>\u201d. But now another hyperactive hurricane season, paired with the dogged persistence of an untreatable tree disease known as greening, has left a once thriving citrus industry on life support.<\/p>\n<p>Only 12m boxes of oranges will have been produced in Florida by the end of this year, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nass.usda.gov\/Statistics_by_State\/Florida\/Publications\/Citrus\/Citrus_Forecast\/2024-25\/cit1224.pdf\">forecasts show<\/a>, the lowest single-year yield in almost a century. The figure is 33% lower than a year ago, and less than 5% of the 2004 harvest of 242m boxes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/22\/florida-orange-industry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricanes and an untreatable tree disease have left a once fruitful citrus industry with little to produce this year For decades it was the signature taste of Florida: orange juice from the state\u2019s plentiful groves advertised to a thirsty nation as \u201cyour daily dose of sunshine\u201d. But now another hyperactive hurricane season, paired with the &#8230; <a title=\"Florida and oranges have been a pair for decades. Now the industry has sour prospects\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/florida-and-oranges-have-been-a-pair-for-decades-now-the-industry-has-sour-prospects\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida and oranges have been a pair for decades. Now the industry has sour prospects\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}