WINTER HAVEN – Citrus consultant Elizabeth Steger has some good news for a Florida citrus industry desperately seeking it.
The Kissimmee-based consultant’s widely watched preseason forecast shows Florida orange growers can expect a crop of 75.5 million boxes in the upcoming 2017-18 season.
If Steger is correct, that would represent a 10 percent increase in the state’s 2016-17 orange crop of 68.7 million boxes, according to the last monthly update from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in July. It would also mark the first time the state’s orange crop increased after five seasons of declines.
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