Orange crop is set to be the smallest since WWII, sending OJ prices surging per CNN

[daveoutside]

Most likely due to climate change and covid-19

 

[daveoutside]

Orange crop is set to be the smallest since WWII, sending OJ prices surging

Oranges are in trouble. Citrus disease and bad weather are constraining supply of oranges in the United States and internationally. Meanwhile, demand for orange juice — which has been sliding for years — got a bump during the pandemic.

www.cnn.com

 

[lepetitcheval]

also years and years of monoclonal citrus nursery production- absolutely no resistance to novel pathogens. I

 

[InChristAlone]

The citrus groves are really struggling and they refuse to stop using so many fungicides and pesticides because they have depleted the land and they would get taken out by disease quick. But the more chems they use the worse the problem gets thus requiring more pesticides. They need to boost soil fertility to see anything improve.

 

[yerrag]

Most likely due to climate change and covid-19

You jest.

When we are already in the beginning of a mini-Ice Age? Aren't we having record cold already worldwide?

 

[Old Irenaeus]

And in many places they cut down all the groves and replaced with housing developments.