Who Killed the Florida Orange?

Who Killed the Florida Orange?(slate.com)

4 points by jgwil2 50 days ago | 2 comments

ksherlock 50 days ago |

Wow, I think this is flying under the radar.

I've noticed the orange juice at my grocery store 1. seems kind of expensive and 2. is (almost?) entirely from brazil and from concentrate. My favorite Florida OJ brand is gone. Turns out they went bankrupt and shut down a few months back.

This doesn't look good for orange blossom honey, either.

hn-VZ4N8hcYCjKw 50 days ago | |

I know a citrus farming family in the Orlando area. In the past two years they’ve closed most of their facilities and fired most of their staff (with decent severance). They're pivoting to real estate, selling farmland off to developers or figuring out how to redevelop their industrial sites. It was simply uneconomical to try to continue competing in the citrus market with Florida based farms.