Saturday, October 10, 2015

Asiasn Citrus Pysllid killing our citrus trees

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Does anyone like bugs (other than Greg Rice that is)?

Well this is the one that is causing our citrus crop to drop: the Asian Citrus Psyllid


“The United States' all orange forecast for the 2015-2016 season is 5.77 million tons, down 10 percent from the 2014-2015 final utilization,” NASS noted on Friday. “The Florida all orange forecast, at 80 million boxes (3.60 million tons), is down 17 percent from last season’s final utilization. Early, midseason, and Navel varieties in Florida are forecast at 40 million boxes (1.80 million tons), down 16 percent from last season’s final utilization. The Florida Valencia orange forecast, at 40 million boxes (1.80 million tons), is down 19 percent from last season’s final utilization.”


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The only crop that our Florida "farmers " are interested in raising is condos. Screw em all! And I used to respect Florida Ag. HA!!