Mark Hudson

A rise reported it U.S. orange crop production by less than 1%, per USDA's latest crop production forecast. The main factor was an 8% increase in California's all orange crop year over year, by over 51 billion boxes. In addtion, "California's non-Valencia's went from 39 million to 43 million [from the previous year" noted NASS' Mark Hudson ...

USDA's all orange forecast for December reflects reports only from the Sunshine state. And according to NASS' Mark Hudson, total U.S. production is down 1% from the previous forecast.  With Florida's all orange forecast down 2%, at 46 million boxes. ...

This time of the year, you would not expect much change in the USDA's forecast for the orange crop; and expectations were met in this week's report.  The Florida all-orange crop forecast came in at 45 million boxes, the same as last month's forecast.  ...