BARTOW, Fla. \u2013\u00a0After several years of increases, retail prices for Florida Citrus are expected to stabilize in the 2014-15 season, Florida Department of Citrus Economist Marisa Zansler told the Florida Citrus Commission Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zansler <\/a>presented this season\u2019s Florida Citrus Outlook report to commissioners at their regularly scheduled board meeting. The report included a look at factors expected to influence\u00a0the economics of the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cProjections for this season are quite optimistic \u2013 even when compared with where we were just a few weeks ago,\u201d Zansler said. \u201cThis is in part due to a larger than expected USDA Citrus Crop Estimate<\/a> delivered earlier this month.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among Zansler\u2019s projections are an increase in orange production in both Florida and Brazil, but overall availability is expected to be reduced because of a lower amount of beginning inventories for the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grapefruit and specialty production are expected to be down and fruit prices for all Florida Citrus are expected to be higher. A moderate decline in retail consumption of Orange Juice is projected, with Not-From-Concentrate remaining stronger than Reconstituted orange juice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For growers, on-tree revenues are expected to be higher than last year, however, Zansler said, this\u00a0will be offset, to some extent, by higher production costs. BARTOW, Fla. \u2013\u00a0After several years of increases, retail prices for Florida Citrus are expected to stabilize in the 2014-15 season, Florida Department of Citrus Economist Marisa Zansler told the Florida […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":77,"template":"","fdoc_news_item_category":[99,80,100,102],"fdoc_citrus_type":[110,108],"fdoc_health_category":[],"class_list":["post-4145","fdoc-news-item","type-fdoc-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fdoc_news_item_category-economic-research","fdoc_news_item_category-fdoc","fdoc_news_item_category-industry","fdoc_news_item_category-orange-juice-consumption","fdoc_citrus_type-grapefruit","fdoc_citrus_type-orange-juice"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
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