Why California Is Beating Florida In Citrus Production

[@hammersampson]

Last summer I was in Orlando, FL for summer vacation in Disney World. Stopped by a local supermarket, looked at the oranges, and noticed that they were from California.😂

[@heraldomedrano851]

I pick oranges in the 90'S.

[@MrSalbego]

thanks for the useless info

[@donwyoming1936]

I stopped at a roadside stand in NC and bought a bag of peanuts from... Portales, New Mexico.

[@albeestax]

Orange season in Florida is during winter. There are no oranges growing in Florida during the summer.

[@ypw510]

@@samraduns7756 I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. California grows few oranges for juice, where it's mostly for the fresh fruit market. It's mostly navel oranges, which have a thicker peel that comes off easier than the Valencia orange, which is the big orange variety for juice. Navel oranges have lower moisture so they'll taste sweeter. Even Valencia oranges grown in California aren't for juice. There isn't as much rainfall, so they'll typically have less moisture needed for juice, but again will be more concentrated and sweeter. I've seen California Valencia oranges in a store juicer making fresh juice, but that's not the same as the higher moisture oranges typical in Florida.

[@kzubersky]

I live in Florida. Citrus greening has killed all of my citrus trees. It's frustrating. But I can't imagine how incredibly devastating it is for the citrus farmers.

[@user-mr8yl2fg9k]

They were warned not to monocrop. Now they shot themselves in the foot and want to offload the cost onto us.

[@papeeni97]

@@user-mr8yl2fg9kq

[@fritagonia]

I think the problem is monoculture like the first comment

[@MarkusG85]

@@user-mr8yl2fg9k It has nothing to do with monocrop. A lot of types of oranges and other citrus were grown in Florida and none are immune. This isn't like with bananas where monocrop is an issue because only one or two species are being grown.

[@4.0gpa44]

​@@user-mr8yl2fg9kWhat are they supposed to do, plant squash in the middle of an orange orchard? That wouldn't work for mechanized care of trees. And many varieties of oranges are susceptible.

[@icls9129]

Monoculture. Growing acres and acres of the same thing means that some pest will eventually find it's way there to take advantage of it. It's not sustainable or environmentally friendly to grow so many orange trees in one area.

[@BayuAH]

Totally agree. Soil nutrient also depleted way more faster, which lead to more artificially fertilizers pouring to land that make it unbalanced nutrient.

[@colin8696908]

Disagree, there are ways to limit the spread of pests in a monoculture environment. More importantly if you don't grow them like that then you'll be paying $25 per bottle of orange juice so what your saying isn't really a feasible solution.

[@edwardroche2480]

Hindsight is always 20/20

[@michaeldowson6988]

@@BayuAH Excess applied nutrients, runs off and creates algae problems in the Florida water.

[@doujinflip]

Efficiency and resilience are competing interests.

[@TheGamerUnknown]

$14 an hour for manual labor out in the sun is basically nothing. That is not an unfairly high wage.

[@CapitalismDeathSpiral]

I would pluck fruit 🍎 for $25/Hour at a normal human pace.

[@mackenziegray2090]

It's a unskilled job where anybody can do it.

[@TheGamerUnknown]

@@mackenziegray2090 Would *you* do it for the minimum federal wage of $7.25? Would anyone, given the choice?

[@mackenziegray2090]

@@TheGamerUnknown minimum wage in Florida is $12. Increase the wages then have to increase product. Poorer states wouldn't buy it then. Employees are easily replaced. I wouldn't work that job cause I work a skilled trade.

[@DawnRK3204]

@@mackenziegray2090 Why does a job have to take great skill to warrant decent pay? There is great value in having a hand producing food for a society. I’m very thankful for those enduring sun, manual labor, and perhaps even pesticide exposure for me to be able to eat. I do manual labor for a living - risking skin cancer, getting horrible poison ivy, chiggers, and heat exhaustion. It’s time for societies to value more than skill and college degrees. Resilient and thriving societies value all these things.

[@joshmo9823]

They tried to blame wages being to high lol. If that here the case, why did California takeover orange production when the minimum wage is even higher than Florida?

[@kunaldhume4152]

Greed always has "higher wages as an excuse!

[@pooldoctorz]

Because of the people coming over the border

[@kirkjohnson6638]

​@@kunaldhume4152 Greed is the only thing that makes economies work.

[@kirkjohnson6638]

California's orange production output has been flat since 1980, so CA didn't overtake FL orange production, FL orange production simply soared and then collapsed back to where it was around 1950.

[@mikelouis9389]

​@@kirkjohnson6638Ah yes, laud one of the 7 deadly sins. How neo-chtistian.

[@DDowling-s1m]

Arizona had a thriving citrus industry 40 yrs ago. But then, like in Florida, developers bought up the orchards & made them into subdivisions. At least I still have an orange tree in my yard, an against-all-odds orchard survivor. Now if I can just keep it alive thru this miserable, 115⁰ summer. Driving around, there are dead trees & shrubs everywhere. Pine trees are particularly hard hit. 🌵

[@axnyslie]

You know what else is more expensive than ever? Everything!

[@Kevin-oj2uo]

Lol what did you expect lower prices? Thats even worse for the economy.

[@Zedgo99]

@@Kevin-oj2uo whose economy? not mine

[@HandyMan657]

@@Kevin-oj2uo fox parroting skills.. Mastered

[@thunderb00m]

You know what? Inflation is down doesn't mean prices coming down. It means it won't increase further

[@MP-vc4nu]

@@Kevin-oj2uo White House bot detected

[@lutchramnarine4671]

When farmers get lest than 10% the value of the product but bear most of the risk in terms of stuff like disease, drought, growing costs etc, this is to be expected. not just for orange but literally everything grown. But fear not Stock Brokers , Big Corporation will come to the rescue!!

[@raymondaten2179]

Saw a video a couple years ago where a citrus farmer un Florida was beginning to lose his trees so he planted other plants between his trees, like cover crops and other plants that attracted other beneficial insects and created a polyculture rather then the normal monoculture that forces the use of chemicals that destroy the soil leaving plants malnourished.

[@Scott.Byrnes]

Around me... all the orange groves are apartment complexes, houses, shopping centers now.

[@JaroslavBrabec-iz5eb]

Around me not

[@user-mr8yl2fg9k]

@@Scott.Byrnes more proof the land developers launched the citrus greening bug themselves. Probably had some help from Monsanto too

[@Martin_Priesthood]

😂😂

[@cameroonkendrick6312]

@@user-mr8yl2fg9k that actually kinda makes sense those developers will do terrible things so they can build their suburbs

[@WiseSnake]

@@user-mr8yl2fg9k That's not proof of anything other than land developers are opportunists. Also, it's not Monsanto anymore, it's just Bayer now.

[@monacoofthebluepacific2571]

I can't remember the last time I bought orange juice. It's loaded with so much sugar!

[@JanaiB72]

There’s a difference between added sugar and natural occurring sugar. Orange juice ain’t soda.

[@_xbadazz9176]

agreed! when I found out how much added sugar was in tropicana I stopped buying it. I now buy fresh squeezed orange juice with no sugar added and it taste sooo good but still very expensive. I buy it once every month or so.

[@JanaiB72]

@@disarchitected nope. There are different kinds of sugars and it’s important to know the difference. Sucrose is sugar processed from sugar cane for instance. That’s a good example (of the term you used there) “ultra processed”. It’s often labeled as ‘refined sugar’. Fructose on the other hand, is naturally occurring sugar found mostly in fruits. Some brands do the minimum when processing orange juice and all they do is extract, pasteurize the juice and include the pulp, which is water-soluble fiber. When it’s that kind of orange juice you’re drinking, it’s definitely better than soda. It’s important to make that distinction.

[@disarchitected]

@@JanaiB72 Pure fructose is far worse for your body than sucrose! Sucrose is part glucose and part fructose. Its the fructose element driving high levels of non alcoholic fatty liver disease, which in turn drives metabolic syndrome, type2 diabetes, colonary heart disease. Even the sort of ‘healthy’ juice you describe, it will rapidly spike your blood sugar because the juice has been stripped from it’s food matrix. Pasteurisation will destroy many health giving enzymes and vitamins. You are much better off drinking a glass of water and eating a whole orange. A whole orange will have far higher levels of soluble fibre such as pectin which slows ingestion of sugar from the gut.

[@JanaiB72]

@@_xbadazz9176 the sugar you see on the label of Tropicana orange juice is not added sugar but the sugar that’s naturally present in the orange juice itself. The only difference between the orange juice you squeezed at home and the one Tropicana makes is pasteurization which is needed to extend the shelf life of orange juice.

[@miaohmya92]

I'm from NE Florida and my family had trees that had been in the family for generations This blight killed every last one. 😢

[@tnt1602]

Who would have thought planting mono cultures would backfire in such an inconceivable way. Unheard of

[@rheffner3]

Eating oranges is healthy. Drinking orange juice is not. So less orange juice is not such a bad thing. People should avoid most fruit juice and eat the whole fruit. Just saying.

[@904TallerTim]

Okay eat a green ass orange

[@thomads1]

Monoculture. Growing acres and acres of the same thing means that some pest will eventually find it's way there to take advantage of it. It's not sustainable or environmentally friendly to grow so many orange trees in one area.

[@EdA-qh7qr]

Orange juice is how they use all the undesirable fruit

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

You know you need to have healthy and ripe *oranges* to make *orange juice,* right? How will you eat oranges from trees killed by drought, storms, and disease?

[@ypw510]

@@EdA-qh7qr Not really. The Florida orange crop is nearly all juice oranges. In California it's nearly all fresh fruit, although they'll divert poor looking oranges to juice production.

[@chargermopar]

I am in Florida and my citrus trees in my yard are doing just fine. They are wild seed grown trees not monocultural grafted trees. All the citrus land I grew up with is disgusting developments now.

[@Mudnuri]

I was born and raised in FL. The groves have all but been replaced with subdivisions and gated communities. Old farmers die and their children sell out to developers.

[@rambo410]

Arizona used to be big producer in the 1990's but new home communities took over that. I haven't able to buy a orange for less than a $1.

[@begzattashtanbekov7383]

Uzbekistan ❤

[@cameroonkendrick6312]

California citrus is expensive as hell, they got to fix Florida’s industry and stop land developers

[@ypw510]

A lot of orange juice in the US comes from Brazilian oranges. They are by far the largest producer of juice oranges in the world.

[@1988vikable]

Citrus isnt comming back to USA. Florida is moving away from agriculture.

[@flaviantropy]

At this rate aside from the costco hot dog there is nothing is getting cheaper/better/ staying the same.

[@SlowhandGreg]

That's decades of bad farming practices and climate change for you. During Cov we planted a small diverse orchard and built some raised beds for growing our own produce, we don't use fertiliser but companion planting the fruit trees are biennial.

[@asasupplies8749]

Ive read that soaking oak tree leaves in water and then spraying the citrus tree with that solution has helped against citrus greening.

[@ericmartin2470]

i live in Florida - when i was a child there were orange groves everywhere. now its strip malls and housing developments. the onset of "Citrus Greening" was the death knell to the whole industry. farmers sold their land for pennies on the dollar and went out of business. those farmers who are still in business sells their crops at a big discount because of this disease. the orange plants that makes orange juice via the pasteurization process adds sugar to the final product.

[@richardgibson2158]

Polk county?

[@ericmartin2470]

@@richardgibson2158 Palm Beach, Sarasota and Manatee

[@ericmartin2470]

@@richardgibson2158 Palm Beach, Sarasota and Manatee

[@xxredhoodxx5738]

Used to work with my dad he was the group leader the one that drives the bus and the “chiva” meaning the goat the machine that picks up the boxes or bins, he made the most money in his life in that job some checks were up to 2k a week and this was back in 2007/2010. Last week he work he got $560 for a full week. He bought 3 house in that time when battling with alcohol if not I could only imagine what he could’ve done with more than half a million from what he estimates went down the drain

[@a.boss.__09]

My city in California use to have orange trees all over now it’s full of house .

[@samthesuspect]

Florida's population is booming, I know around the Tampa area they built out a ton of homes and apartments, a huge portion of that was built on former citrus land. North of Tampa and Pasco county, and my hometown they've ripped out hundreds of acres to make way for a new Publix, solar farms, and houses.

[@estebancorral5151]

Hurricane Debby did a lot ripping off for free. Of course the insurance companies won’t pay what they owe.

[@huskydadtokoda]

When I lived in florida in 2004, the smell of the orange blossoms in the air was beautiful!!! Now, when I go back to visit my parents it smells like 💩 and ⚰️🐟

[@gezenews]

Yeah that's from all the californians moving here.

[@Quaquadaqu]

@@gezenewssounds like cope

[@gezenews]

@@Quaquadaqu Cope is when you try to turn Florida into a laughing stock state and then 7 million people still move here over 5 years because of how dogwater the rest of the country has become. Thanks for making my family rich as can be. House never been worth more.

[@DERRTYCHYBO]

Orange juice is the GOAT fruit juice

[@CowboyPants-h5p]

So wrong. Paid by the growers, are ya?

[@dohc1067]

I live in GA and remember when a gallon of walmart branded orange juice 🍊 was around $1.50 years ago. $6 to $7 is just sickening. I understand why, but like the rest of the juices, it can stay on the shelf.

[@Hippida]

People thinking $1.50 for a Gallon of orange juice is normal is sickening. There is about 15 pounds of oranges in that gallon (Prob less in that walmart branded, as you prefer dirt cheap over quality) Did you even watch this video ?????

[@dohc1067]

Did you actually read my comment? I said years ago not since the natural disasters or covid. Also, I said walmart brand as a reference, not a comparison. Most people know Tropicana among others are of better quality and taste. Also, I mentioned GA not and yes, alot of it has been and continues to be on the shelf and one fact: it's old news that store branded items whether walmart or others are selling.

[@harveysanchez6993]

This is disheartened to hear.😢 I love oranges and orange juice and the possible loss of it in the future makes me sad.

[@ryannechvatal9888]

Grow your own tree

[@ChetHanks-eh1md]

This is what happens when you have a mono culture and no climate change action.

[@mrright1068]

Citrus greening is an invasive species. Climate Change has nothing to do with it.

[@SaifAli96]

As an OJ lover, this is absolutely heartbreaking! Mother nature can be cruel, hope we find a way to live together and once again revive the citrus farms!

[@Hippida]

Mono culture isn't natural, so very little Mother involved...

[@SaifAli96]

@@Hippida you are kinda right about the monoculture thing..

[@banditonehundred]

Took a second to realise you meant Orange Juice when you said OJ

[@thomads1]

Last summer I was in Orlando, FL for summer vacation in Disney World. Stopped by a local supermarket, looked at the oranges, and noticed that they were from California.

[@QuaylaSwan]

What's killing them? Rhymes with Rump

[@jakevendrotti1496]

Grump Frump Dump Drumpf The irony of him being orange.

[@spirituselectus7602]

Maybe imports from other countries?

[@GyattGPT]

It's interesting that there are predators that would eat the physilids. I wonder if the dramatic drop in insect biomass has removed the helpful predator insects that would have controlled it better.

[@estebancorral5151]

They are called wasps and dragonflies.

[@bunnyben5607]

Sure you can release wasps to control the psyllid, but that only controls the psyllid and not the disease. At best it can only slightly slow the spread of the disease and it doesn't keep existing trees from dying. Also the wasps are dependent on the psyllid population so they'll never completely eradicate the food source they're dependent on.

[@catherinesanchez1185]

BINGO

[@nhathannguyen3697]

My father drinks a cup of 🍊 orange juice every other day if not everyday . He is at the moment in in early 70’s my mother is in her early 60’s . They look like they are at the same age , together in the late 50’s year old ranges . 🍊 oranges and other fruits does persevere ages and keep you healthy at the same time . I hope everyone drinks more oranges and let’s help support Florida’s oranges ! California + Texas + Florida’s oranges strong 💪🏿

[@CowboyPants-h5p]

So funny. So wrong. Typical American logic.....

[@HLBNZ]

Your arm emoji explained why your comment was so unintelligible yet incorrect.

[@joakos1122]

Home squeezed juice is good but the stuff at the stores leads to obesity

[@karmaandkerosene_music]

I can't remember the last time I saw orange trees in Florida.

[@ZoomZoomMX3]

Pay people $20/hour and people will work. Stop thinking that a farm shouldake millions and not pay high wages. I laugh at these old farmers going under after centuries of them exploiting workers.

[@Issac-eg5ek]

Farms in Idaho a few years ago paid 25ish an hour and of a thousand workers they only got around 7. Look it up it if you don't believe it, there may be a Google article on it

[@naveedrehman2987]

Thank goodness I am now used to drinking water (H20) It was difficult at first but you get use to it!

[@Paul-rd5pw]

Save those oranges. I love those things and the best ones seem to come from the States

[@ChetHanks-eh1md]

Labor is expensive? Im so tired of this anti worker non sense. There is no other way to get a product to market you need workers.

[@360sblulev]

dude they literally laid out the numbers of what it costs in the video, its like 3x the labor cost to grow here than in south america. what can US producers do when those foreign producers are undercutting the market with their cheap labor oranges? its the fact of reality that its expensive here, labeling anything anti worker doesnt make it right

[@ChetHanks-eh1md]

@@360sblulev Stop letting politicians make it easier for CEO's to offshore their agriculture products. Tariffs on imports. The way we grow things in this country contributed to the problem in the first place. Big Agg needs to be regulated they are creating mono cultures and destroying our food system.

[@kingokafor6215]

​@@360sblulevdo they lay how expensive it is to pay the CEO? That is part of the labor cost after all

[@justayoutuber1906]

They used to be able to use documented workers for harvest

[@RealShaktimaan]

It's the truth. Everything is expensive since Florida started to raise the min wage.

[@richardgibson2158]

Where I live used to be purely orange groves. Now all I see are retirement communities.

[@bugginout3169]

I moved from Davenport, FL in 2022 after living there for one year. I watched miles of orange groves be leveled for new housing developments along Hwy 27. Also, 5 miles west of me they approved 50,000 new home permits in ONE DAY. The orange tree disease is humans.

[@gplunk]

We are a self-exterminating species....

[@TheDunningKrugerEffectisReal]

I worked at a local Citrus Farm here in between Hillsborough/Pinellas county Florida 7-8 years ago, we used to package the juice brought from elsewhere in these giant containers into our bottles and label until harvest season then we will start bottling from our own squeeze and the difference was day and night. Sadly it closed down after that same harvest season after I joined, the owner a multimillionaire with a estate and land adjacent to the farm had grown old, his best friend who had died already had been the reason why he kept the business running so long out of respect for the promise he made his friend after forming a band, he would of closed the business earlier had it not been for that, or so that’s how it was explained to me. Another sector of the agricultural industry that’s going to need government subsidies to stay afloat probably, with estimates of almost 400 million dollars given out in the past decade to study HLB and other diseases as well as developing techniques such as phloem manipulation, etc.

[@kc4cvh]

Mostly the Huanglongbing bacterium, but we never really recovered from the Terrible Christmas Freeze of 1989.

[@googleuser6875]

File this under "how quickly we forget". In the early 80's, in Florida ,there were 3 winters of freezing. Grove owners panicked and most of the groves were sold off to developers. Where you could see miles of oranges from the citrus tower in Claremont you now see rooftops. Is it any wonder why production is down? We are destroying our environment to placate an ever-growing population that refuses to believe that there are too many now for the planet to sustain.

[@jakevendrotti1496]

But it's imperative that people make more babies that look just like them instead of adopt the existing children of people who couldn't take care of them

[@mrright1068]

I have a home in FL and had 11 orange trees. Citrus greening killed all of them made me sick. I would replant if I knew they would survive.

[@ecognitio9605]

Gene drive to drive the invasive Physilid bug into extinction? The tech is being used against mosquitos and as the man said the bacterium uses that bug to travel from tree to tree.

[@ddd-mac]

I love orange

[@ddd-mac]

eating orange to be exact

[@razzlekhan292]

I had orange juice in Mexico and GOD! It was SO MUCH BETTER!

[@ricnyc2759]

It's freshly squeezed. In the US they keep thousands of gallons of juice stored in huge tanks before they are sold to the customers.

[@la6136]

Because it’s actually real oranges. Orange juice in America is from concentrate mixed with a bunch of water, sugar and flavor chemicals

[@cameroonkendrick6312]

Because Florida oranges are infected with citrus greening making the fruit taste worse and the US doesn’t have enough oranges

[@bunnyben5607]

As a general rule I never drink American orange juice. Avoid avoid avoid. Also even Oranges themselves sold in stores can be dyed orange

[@MyLoganTreks]

Yeup citrus Greening makes citrus taste sour and bitter, I stopped buying it completely and grew mangoes after all citrus trees died

[@wendyshoowaiching4161]

I love orange juice. Simply best drink

[@TheFiremanEd]

All my citrus trees had for 20 years died. Rare to see them in West coast of Florida. Miss when they all were in bloom in and around Tampa, it was amazing. In 30 to 50 years - The End.

[@TboneWTF]

It's time to find a new crop to grow because the citrus economy will only get worse before (if at all) it gets better.

[@adaptolife]

I live in central Florida, and all the groves are being pulled out and burned! It seems like ever since we got the current government in Tallahassee that it's disappeared.

[@floridamaninthewild]

I've watched thousands of acres of groves give way to the housing market in central Florida. The land is worth more as a housing development than groves. Add to that disease and foreign competition and the industry is doomed to continue to shrink.

[@houseofangell3255]

Agreed

[@DDR88767]

Imagine million dollar corporations crying that they have to pay someone 14 bucks an hour to do back breaking labor. I'm glad I stopped drinking that crap years ago. It's so bad for you.

[@baha3alshamari152]

The only reason illegal immigrants can stay for years is because they work for less than half the minimum wage

[@deeptoot1453]

😂go cry a little harder. What do you drink now? Apple Juice?

[@etaokha4164]

Even here in uk. Orange just 4 in a pack cost £6 in Asda or Sainsbury's or morrisons. It used to cost £4 now £6 and now I buy the shop own brand which is £4 for 4 and not in a pack as my son has got SCD he needs vitamin C with his medications and I use orange juice instead of giving him the vitamin C tablets as I don't want it interfere with his system as he uses high toxic medication like hydroxyurea and penicillin. I thought nappies were expensive but no. Orange juice Is very very expensive followed by beef and the last time I bought meat was 4 months ago and my son has a high protein intake having a child with SCD is very very expensive and am grateful for the uk government playing their part and the NHS will forever be our Gem 💎 💙. I'll forever be grateful 🙏

[@estebancorral5151]

England had never been a nation that cultivated oranges. Your weather is abysmal not only for humans but for oranges.

[@emmanuelleonard8758]

In France and Russia, chickens are used in orchards. A single chicken can devour up to 300 parasites per hour. And in both countries, GMOs are strictly prohibited.

[@MyLoganTreks]

False chickens won't solve Citrus Greening Bacteria spread by a very small fly

[@SlowhandGreg]

The price of decades of bad farming practices and its industrialization.

[@socalgal714]

🧡 California oranges! 🍊🍊

[@emmanuelleonard8758]

In any case, these forms of extensive monocultures are the intrinsic source of the problem. There are no bushes to inhabit predatory birds to fight against the parasite of oranges.. And these madmen will still invent a new chemistry to solve the problem.

[@nighthawk_predator1877]

Citrus greening isn't a new problem. We've been dealing with this hideous disease for 2 decades now. It sucks. I gave up on my citrus trees. No more back yard citrus for me. Sad

[@veteranga7529]

I don’t buy #OrangeJuice or #Oranges because their way to expensive at the #GroceryStore. $4.99 to $7.99 for juice or fresh. I’m a #DisableVeteran and my #COLA & #SNAP doesn’t pay enough to buy fresh squeezed or fresh #Oranges per month. So this #Citrus is out my diet, sorry can’t afford it!

[@DutchInman]

The other question is, why are we only growing in Florida is more potential and other areas of the states as well. Think about it.

[@ReelSteeleGarage]

people move out of california ...people move into florida....i lived in nothing but groves as a teen ..they are all houses now....

[@James-sz2hr]

What do you expect when Florida is turning citrus farms into apartment building development?

[@Cyrus992]

Grow indoors

[@jakevendrotti1496]

That's a result, not a cause

[@BryceGarling]

I grow the resistant varieties. Haven't bought citrus in at least 7 years.

[@rasjahson6261]

Tropicana, Simply and Florida Natural’s cheap freight is their downfall and it has been that way for decades.

[@LifeofWalk]

If this happened to coffee beans = RIP humanity 😭😭

[@quandingleberry445]

who needs coffee when you have water.

[@emilabd2616]

I drink tea, green tea 😄

[@justayoutuber1906]

It is happening to coffee

[@vengeancewillbemine3440]

​@@justayoutuber1906agreed it is

[@jkfdkjjd]

Just have a TINY bit of meth instead!

[@vinny7114]

Much tougher now since they scared all immigrants away with that awful rhetoric to the point that they suddenly stopped talking about it, cause Americans won't go pick fruits unless its for a photo op. Truly pathetic of some people to need their labor while trashing them.

[@drinny26]

I have an orange tree in my yard in florida.

[@CowboyPants-h5p]

Wow. You are SPECIAL.

[@drinny26]

@@CowboyPants-h5p ☺️

[@SomeOne-tk3su]

"What's killing Florida's oranges?" Despair.

[@Lilyzoe28]

This channel and it's exploratory teaching has been a major drive for me as I give back 50% of my weekly earning ($32,000) to the sick old ones in my neighborhood. God bless America 🇺🇸

[@Lilyzoe28]

Big thanks to Renee Marie Harrison

[@Lilyzoe28]

She’s a licensed broker here in the states 🇺🇸

[@Lilyzoe28]

Her top notch guidance and expertise on digital market changed the game for me

[@Lilyzoe28]

There’s her line below 👇

[@Lilyzoe28]

+1618..

[@georgewashington7829]

My concern with California producing so much food is the fact since the 1800's they've been in a constant water shortage with some area's today (it's rare to be fair!) shrinking as much as 5ft due to over pumping of the water table. The worst thing to happen to California is white people and I have no hate for my own people. I'm just saying the freaking Natives knew about controlled burning, and they knew how to live in harmony with such a delicate ecosystem. The reason the new world was so wealthy in natural wealth was because of them. They didn't engage in industrial scale agriculture for a reason and despite popular belief it's not for lack of knowing about a version of such practices. There's natives in the mid west area that had massive scale farming for their cities. It's because California can't sustainably produce this much. California needs to buy out farms and turn them into nature preserves. The place just doesn't have the water to sustain so much agricultural.

[@atlastraveler]

Oh no, US orange tastes so much sweeter & better than the NZ & AU varieties

[@allangibson8494]

Added sugar does that…

[@analienfromouterspace]

Let me guess, they forgone species diversity? yeah sure buddy, let's make only fewer kinds of oranges!!!

[@MarkusG85]

You are the second person saying that but that isn't true. There are thousands of species of oranges and none are immune.

[@m_0863]

@@MarkusG85 Watched something, not pertaining to citrus greening but rather monocultures, regarding "Cavandish" bananas showing similar issues with singular species planting.

[@SheriKeenan]

There like they don’t grow true so we can’t plant seeds we don’t know what will happen. Every backyard garden that grew theses from seed and we noticed the flavor went up stayed the same or we didn’t notice like grow 😊form seed 😂

[@Urbangardenersproject]

The biggest problem is the management that is weakening the tree. The roundup being sprayed as weed control and amonium nitrate fertilizer kills the roots and weakens the trees. I’m my backyard, I’ve washed off fertilizer pellets and watched the plant turn from yellow to green. It’s not the monoculture or the disease. It’s the management.

[@colemislevy7576]

You probably put too much fertilizer, which was killing the tree. When you washed the excess fertilizer off the tree recovered.

[@Urbangardenersproject]

@@colemislevy7576 I washed the fertilizer off of the trees I got from the store, before I planted them.

[@Crusader1984]

Sub Divisions and solar fields have been killing Orange Groves

[@joeblowe3180]

Based California

[@Justaguyinthecornerofthescreen]

I switch to growing sugarcane for my sweet tooth, muuuucccchhh better

[@estebancorral5151]

High fructose Corn Syrup is cheaper no one will buy your sugar.

[@kinghenryxl1747]

I can literally taste the orange juice by just watching this

[@jamesbondero6170]

Prices will never come down! Greedy corporations!

[@miss3meow]

Re labor, Im surprised they didnt mention the negative impacts of Santis's anti-immigrant legislation

[@Justaguyinthecornerofthescreen]

This is what I was thinking, that is also a factor in the rise but not being mentioned

[@Omar20v]

Lies

[@UmmYeahOk]

It’s not just DeSantis. Rather than spend money on immigration and work visa processing, Greg Abbott wasted tax payer money bussing immigrants to other states, deporting them, arresting them, concentrating camps, etc. They aren’t asking for citizenship. They aren’t asking for a handout. They just want to exist here legally, and earn a living. Instead, we complain that “no one wants to work these days,” in regards to low paying entry level work, even though there’s hundreds of thousands at the border who would.

[@billfeld5883]

Just the lost of land is a very dangerous thing!!!! 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@jahjoeka]

I always thought tangerines were better than oranges.

[@babakbabak5329]

People are losing their livelihoods.

[@annat6249]

Orange Juice is one of the example where American culture relies on so much on process food. Freshly squeeze a cup of orange juice only take 1 minute. You know what you are drinking is real 100% orange juice.

[@williamkreth]

I went to florida and i was so excited to eat florida oranges and florida grapefruits. I was shocked that my local california oranges and grapefruits taste way better

[@digitalrandomart3049]

"no workers willing to work" no we have plenty of people willing to work you just want cheaper labor and create these programs to ship migrants in

[@williambonadurer9750]

I like how the announcer says "At the same time OJ prices are reaching record highs" Like ya that's how it works when you have less supply.

[@UnCoolDad]

Orange juice isn't a necessity. In fact it's very sugary - best avoided.

[@wigglyk2796]

oranges have lot of vitamin c

[@tsancio]

True, the best option is to eat the full orange, which are also being affected by the tree disease.

[@Dumbledore6969x]

@@wigglyk2796so does a lot of food

[@UnCoolDad]

@@wigglyk2796 you work for big juice? 😂

[@gian19791]

And acidic 😮

[@tanman99]

Two things I’d like to know. 1. Are citrus growers given the same obscene government tax breaks and subsidies that corn growers get, a crop that’s not nutritious? And is mainly just used to artificially depress gas prices? 2. What have our governors done to help citrus growers?

[@jakevendrotti1496]

These are two things you should look up

[@beaniemac]

They can try to gouge on a non necessity and justify it however they want. I simply won't buy it.

[@jide5342]

Bingo. Only necessary drink is water and milk for little kids/babies 😂😂😂

[@beaniemac]

@@jide5342 babies don't need cow milk. The mom provides that for free

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

Track row housing is the main problem.

[@AlexandreMakavitch]

Gold is up $49 on the day, has broken through $2,500 (a record high).

[@jackieyyy]

More reason to promote genetic engineering, the future of agriculture

[@rasputindasilva858]

No worries guys, we here in south Europe have a great production of oranges, we can sell juice to USA at inflated price.

[@wolf17238]

😂😂 DeSantis wanted to deport the people who work in those fields. How'd that work?

[@dbrew2u]

Florida is no longer a major supplier of Oranges anyway . That title now belongs to Brazil . Most Growers in Florida sold their Groves after the freezes in the 80s . The Growers that are left will also end up selling their groves to eager developers . As their property is worth far more than the groves will ever be .

[@MyLoganTreks]

False it wasn't the freezes it's the citrus greening and fat lower labor cost in Brazil. Ron Disantis loves developers and pushing development through FL the crash will come soon.

[@GGBeyond]

Are the Dukes trying to corner the market?

[@morimoko]

never thought i'd ifnd a purpose for wasps.

[@blackrocks8413]

if calif wasn't so overcrowded they could grow more there. Lord knows they don't care about over watering trees. Shout out to all those almond growers