{"id":188,"date":"2017-05-10T12:43:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/newsroom\/?post_type=fdoc-news-item&amp;p=188"},"modified":"2017-05-10T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:43:26","slug":"may-crop-forecast-increases-florida-orange-production","status":"publish","type":"fdoc-news-item","link":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fdoc-news-item\/may-crop-forecast-increases-florida-orange-production\/","title":{"rendered":"May crop forecast increases Florida Orange production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Florida Grapefruit crop dipped slightly.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BARTOW, Fla.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 According to the latest forecast by the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Florida Orange production increased while Grapefruit production declined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The May report projects the state\u2019s orange crop to increase to\u00a068 million boxes for the 2016-17 season. The Grapefruit crop dipped to 7.8\u00a0million boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\t<p>\u201cIt is heartbreaking to watch an industry you love work so hard to survive. Florida Citrus is valued around the world for its premium taste and quality. We will not let that change,\u201d said Shannon Shepp, executive director of the Florida Department of Citrus.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Florida Department of Citrus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Florida Department of Citrus is an executive agency of Florida government charged with the marketing, research and regulation of the Florida citrus industry.\u00a0 Its activities are funded by a tax paid by growers on each box of citrus that moves through commercial channels.\u00a0 The industry employs nearly 62,000 people, provides an annual economic impact of nearly $10.7 billion to the state, and contributes hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues that help support Florida\u2019s schools, roads and health care services. For more information about the Florida Department of Citrus, please visit FloridaCitrus.org.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Grapefruit crop dipped slightly. BARTOW, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 According to the latest forecast by the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Florida Orange production increased while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":190,"template":"","fdoc_news_item_category":[105],"fdoc_citrus_type":[107,108,109],"fdoc_health_category":[],"class_list":["post-188","fdoc-news-item","type-fdoc-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fdoc_news_item_category-crop-forecasts","fdoc_citrus_type-orange","fdoc_citrus_type-orange-juice","fdoc_citrus_type-tangerine"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fdoc-news-item"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fdoc_news_item_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_news_item_category?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_citrus_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_citrus_type?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_health_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_health_category?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}