Monday, March 3, 2025

How Do You Like Them Oranges (Not)

Today I leaned Florida's orange harvest is only 8% of what it was just 20 years ago. The most obvious reasons are attributable to global warming:

  • Increases in hurricane
  • A better environment for disease and pests, particularly citrus canker and  greening disease

 The overall pattern over my lifetime looks like this:

It's notable that the recent years' production is lower than it was at the end of the 1950s.


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