Florida’s cold freeze reduces citrus crops by two point five percent.
Florida’s largest citrus grower, Florida Citrus Mutual , has taken off several million boxes from their earlier estimate in October.
Florida citrus was hit with a cold spell from January- February with temperatures dropping to 28 degrees nights.
The Unites States Department of Agriculture, USD released its report and reduced its earlier estimate by 2.5 percent, or 4 million boxes. The USDA makes its initial forecast in October and then revises it monthly until the end of the season in July .
The crop is now expected to total 158 million boxes.
The executive vice president and CEO, Michael W. Sparks, of Florida Citrus Mutual blamed the reduction to the weather.
“With the field reports we’re getting regarding fruit damage and juice yield loss from the late January and early February freezes we would expect less juice production than we were just a month ago,” Sparks said
“This is most definitely a challenging season,” Sparks said.
In 2007-2008, Florida harvested 170.2 million boxes of oranges.
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Major news organizations Linking to other news sites
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Wire serves like the Associated Press will not die out because of linking. With linking, news is coming from everywhere, so the AP will be the ones who actually have the correct facts. Although these news organizations are making efforts to link to many sites, some of these sites may not have all the facts. An example is when I go on any news organization’s website to find information on something. I can click on many different links but they all say the same things, and I eventually end up going in circles. As mentioned in Stelter’s article many of these news organizations have been linking for years. That is why they are all becoming interconnected through one another, and are able to find one news organization through another.
Wire serves like the Associated Press will not die out because of linking. With linking, news is coming from everywhere, so the AP will be the ones who actually have the correct facts. Although these news organizations are making efforts to link to many sites, some of these sites may not have all the facts. An example is when I go on any news organization’s website to find information on something. I can click on many different links but they all say the same things, and I eventually end up going in circles. As mentioned in Stelter’s article many of these news organizations have been linking for years. That is why they are all becoming interconnected through one another, and are able to find one news organization through another.
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