{"id":4299,"date":"2020-05-12T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/newsroom\/?post_type=fdoc-news-item&amp;p=1033"},"modified":"2020-05-12T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T16:26:12","slug":"may-crop-forecast-projects-slight-decrease","status":"publish","type":"fdoc-news-item","link":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/fdoc-news-item\/may-crop-forecast-projects-slight-decrease\/","title":{"rendered":"May crop forecast projects slight decrease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BARTOW<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013\nThe National Agricultural Statistics Service of the U.S. Department of\nAgriculture projected a decrease for Florida Orange and Grapefruit production,\nin an announcement Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USDA predicted Florida Orange production at 69.65 million\nboxes, a 350,000 box decrease over April\u2019s forecast. Florida Grapefruit\nproduction decreased from 5.2 to 4.9 million boxes for the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs we near the end of harvest, this is really a reconciliation\nof what has been utilized. We remain hopeful that the Valencia production will\nstay on par with current projections,\u201d said Shannon Shepp, executive director\nof the Florida Department of Citrus.<\/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;50,000 people, provides an annual economic impact of&nbsp;$7.2\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:\/\/nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridacitrus.org%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CKristina.Zelisko%40edelman.com%7C7e3ee2d55e1a4048b9f808d7c5130770%7Cb824bfb3918e43c2bb1cdcc1ba40a82b%7C0%7C0%7C637194557842866536&amp;sdata=cdx1x2iOyAr4Ntx0pbV6vMCpAVq6kYjrPXvJp2fJfXs%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>FloridaCitrus.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARTOW&nbsp;\u2013 The National Agricultural Statistics Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected a decrease for Florida Orange and Grapefruit production, in an announcement Tuesday. The USDA predicted Florida Orange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":694,"template":"","fdoc_news_item_category":[],"fdoc_citrus_type":[],"fdoc_health_category":[],"class_list":["post-4299","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\/4299","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=4299"}],"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=4299"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_citrus_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_citrus_type?post=4299"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_health_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_health_category?post=4299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}