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Greening HLB Disease Effect On This Year's Florida Harvest
« on: April 12, 2017, 01:09:08 PM »
Because of greening disease the estimate for Florida grapefruit harvest dropped 800,000 boxes to a total of 8.1 million boxes. Just for comparison’s sake, the grapefruit harvest during the 2003-2004 season was 40.9 million boxes.

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Re: Greening HLB Disease Effect On This Year's Florida Harvest
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2017, 02:19:51 PM »
what a complete and utter disaster!!!!

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Re: Greening HLB Disease Effect On This Year's Florida Harvest
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2017, 02:25:36 PM »
Did demand also drop to match?  If not, who is missing their grapefruits?  My grocery stores are still well stocked.