Florida’s Citrus Crop To Be Smallest Since WW2, Squeezes OJ Prices Higher

Nation And State ^ | 1-19-2022

[nd76]

Where’s Clarence Beeks when you really need him?

[BipolarBob]

He’s out trying to find the REAL price hiker of orange juice.

[Snowybear]

People still drink orange juice? Such a 1950’s thing. It’s 2022.

-SB

[zeestephen]

I gave up on commercial orange juice about 10 years ago.

I grew up in Florida and drank grove fresh juice for 35 years, which pretty much spoils you for life.

I moved to the USA West Coast in the 1990s and actually found some really good OJ in the stores for a premium price.

By the 2000s, it did not matter what price you paid. All the OJ was marginal, and I just moved on to water and V-8 juice.

Around 2020, V-8 started messing with its formula, and I had to give up on that, too.

Today, I am 100% H2O, and I really miss the OJ and V-8 I used to drink every day.

[ClearCase_guy]

Is the Gros Michel banana still around or is it extinct today?

It is not extinct. I've never had one but I believe you can special order some from the internet. Very expensive.

I've heard that when you have banana-flavored candy that tastes "fake" or "too sweet" or "not really how banana tastes" it's actually a representative of what all bananas used to really taste like. I don't know if that's true. One of these days I might try to order a Gros Michel and find out.

[Joe Brower]

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[sitetest]

Glad I don’t do citrus.

[nesnah]

My first thought....great minds.

[Pollard]

Breakfast is becoming more expensive.

In my locale, bacon was $4-5/lb pre-covid and is now $8-10/lb. Makes no sense because ham is about the same. Both are processed somewhat similarly. Nitrate/nitrites and smoked.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Citrus processing (orange/grapefruit juices) plants have been reduced to about 8-10 (from 30-40) due to greening and other citrus maladies. Just not enough product to process. Plants have to run at nearly 100% capacity to be profitable.

Did I mention that probably 60-70% of Florida citrus is owned by Brazilian concerns?

[Vaduz]

And people with high blood pressure with bananas too.