They grow well in colder climates. I don't know why we don't have more here. There all over La.
Posted on 01/28/2011 7:24:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Rocketing prices of fruit juice in commodity markets could soon make apple and orange juice an unaffordable "luxury," a trade publication says.
The Grocer magazine says a series of bad harvests from Florida to China, combined with increased demand from Asian countries, has pushed the price of orange and apple juices up on the world market, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
Industry experts say prices could increase by as much as 80 per cent for orange juice and 60 per cent for apple juice in 2011, the newspaper said.
In the past year, the price of a one-quart carton of Tropicana fresh orange juice in the five major U.K. supermarket chains has risen 22 per cent, from an average of $2.85 to an average of $3.46.
A bitterly cold winter in Florida, the main orange growing area of the world, affected harvests, while similar cold weather in China, one of the main producers of the world's apples, wiped out 40 percent of apple harvests in some parts of the country.
Orange and apple juice producers, already the world's largest, most efficient juice producers, have little room to absorb cost increases, an industry expert says.
"Pricing for orange and apple juice this year could see the most radical change," said Richard Hall, chairman of food consultancy Zenith International.
We are in a gradual but accelerating cool-down into the next Ice Age.
10 years from now you will have forgotten about such things as orange juice, and no matter how you trim your apples and pears they will no longer bear more than a couple of dozen fruit.
Invest now in blueberries and lingon berries.
Daymnit!!! No more Chinese Apple Drink!!???
Buy, Mortimer! BUY
just dont jack with my V8.
They grow well in colder climates. I don't know why we don't have more here. There all over La.
Well, at least we can plant more apple trees. We have more apples on our place than we can eat, and we put a bunch of applesauce in the freezer every fall. We also have neighbors with a cider press.
But the basic fact is that all foods are rising in price. Time to get those damned politicians to kill the ethanol subsidies and the gasoline requirement. That won’t be easy, because there’s a lot of graft involved.
"Turn those machines back on"
Long ago my parents planted a mini citrus grove, 10 apple trees, a few peach, pear and plum. They grew up in the depression.
Darned you AlGore!!!!
the hits just keep on coming.
you may have seen my report about some usually mild mannered people I see around town who are rising to boil. The little lady at my bank fairly shrieked today when she said that it is all moving so fast and every morning brings a new crisis.
But do you think that will reverse in one or two years of normal crop yields?
In the past OJ was always prone to overproduction it seemed, and therefore vulnerable to lower prices.
Or is this just wishful thinking on my part?
When things got tight about 3 years ago, I gave up on OJ and other juices. I made a decision to get my vit. C from peppers and tomatoes.
Fortunately this area grows Texican poverty food really well.
The down side is that I graduated at the top of my class from culinary school, and the major poverty foods (mexican, asian, italian) start to suck after a while.
The weekend before 4th of July, I'm going to have a proper 6 or 7 course meal in the style of Escoffier.
Once, this year. If I can manage it.
/johnny
To bad they have so much salt.
But yeah, Snap-E-Tom or Bud with Clamato (and add a dash of tobasco) is pretty good, and good for the vit. C. ;)
/johnny
If you ever develop diabetes you will, of course, be told to Lay Off Juice.
Weather variability is larger during sunspot minimums and maximums. (the pattern was first observed about 200 years ago.) We are showing signs of coming out of the longest and deepest sunspot minimum I have witnessed. Past that, generalized long term weather prediction is not reliable.
Last year was a terrible gardening year. But my plum and persimmon crop were the best I remember. The garden problem was unusually "cool nights", and unusually wet conditions. This year is beginning on the opposite side, very dry, but still slightly cooler than normal.
I ordered 28 new fruit trees for the family orchard on Monday, and along with them 4 southern highbush blueberry plants. Next week will have a busy couple of days as I plant them. And a few of years of nursing the new plants until we see results.
I thought you didn’t like Po people food? LoL!
OJ will give you a major sugar spike.
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