{"id":4282,"date":"2019-05-10T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/newsroom\/?post_type=fdoc-news-item&amp;p=734"},"modified":"2019-05-10T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T16:20:00","slug":"florida-citrus-production-down-in-latest-estimate","status":"publish","type":"fdoc-news-item","link":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/fdoc-news-item\/florida-citrus-production-down-in-latest-estimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Citrus production down in latest estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BARTOW,\nFla<\/strong>. \u2013 Florida Orange and Grapefruit production decreased\nin&nbsp;the May U.S. Department of Agriculture crop forecast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Released Friday, the report projects Florida Orange production for the 2018-19 season at 72.4 million boxes, a 4.1 million box decrease over the previous month. Florida Grapefruit production decreased 320,000 boxes to 4.58 million boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAgain, we see that we are not out of the woods yet in terms of\nrecovery,\u201d said Shannon Shepp, executive director of the Florida Department of\nCitrus. \u201cAs growers continue to work toward increased productivity, we continue\nto support their efforts through the marketing of delicious and nutritious\nFlorida Citrus.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The numbers remain an\nincrease from the previous season, devastated by Hurricane Irma, when\nproduction dropped to 45.05 million boxes of Florida Oranges and 3.88 million\nboxes of Florida Grapefruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About\nthe Florida Department of Citrus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The\nFlorida Department of Citrus is an executive agency of Florida government\ncharged with the marketing, research and regulation of the Florida citrus\nindustry.&nbsp; Its activities are funded by a tax paid by growers on each box\nof citrus that moves through commercial channels.&nbsp; The industry\nemploys&nbsp;45,000 people, provides an annual economic impact of&nbsp;$8.6\nbillion to the state, and contributes hundreds of millions of dollars in tax\nrevenues that help support Florida\u2019s schools, roads and health care services.\nFor more information about the Florida Department of Citrus, please visit&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/\"><em>FloridaCitrus.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARTOW, Fla. \u2013 Florida Orange and Grapefruit production decreased in&nbsp;the May U.S. Department of Agriculture crop forecast. Released Friday, the report projects Florida Orange production for the 2018-19 season at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":599,"template":"","fdoc_news_item_category":[],"fdoc_citrus_type":[],"fdoc_health_category":[],"class_list":["post-4282","fdoc-news-item","type-fdoc-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fdoc-news-item"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fdoc_news_item_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_news_item_category?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_citrus_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_citrus_type?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_health_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_health_category?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}