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Excerpt from Fruit Situation, Vol. 213: November 1979 The October 1 forecast of the 1979/ 80 citrus crop indicates a record million tons, primarily oranges (excluding grapefruit in California other than desert areas), 15 percent above Flor ida's round orange crop is forecast at 200 million boxes, 22 percent above last season. Orange output in Arizona and California is expected to be 14 and 32 percent larger, respectively as most trees have recovered well from the freeze of last December and January. However, Texas production under the impact of last winter's freeze, is estimated at 4 million boxes, down from million a year ago. Grapefruit. Crop prospects for the 1979/ 80 season (excluding California's other areas) point to a million boxes, 1 percent less than last season, due entirely to a sharp decrease in Texas output. Florida's grapefruit crop, forecast at 51 million boxes, is up slightly from last season. The Arizona California lemon crop is estimated at million boxes, 6 percent below last season's freeze-dam aged crop and 30 percent less than the crop. Opening f.o.b. Prices for Florida oranges were slightly lower than a year ago in a light, early sea son volume. With an expected larger carryover of frozen concentrated orange juice (fcoj) plus the record orange crop, market prospects for oranges through this mid-winter point to grower pricesbelow last year's levels. These lower grower prices are expected to result in lower retail prices even with the continued increase in marketing costs. Opening f.o.b. Prices for Florida grapefruit were moderately higher for white seedless but lower for pink seedless. The slightly smaller grapefruit crop is expected to result in near average price for this season if processor demand for new crop fruit is stimulated by expected smaller carryover stocks of processed items and if fresh grapefruit exports keep increasing. The record orange crop may dampen grapefruit prices. With the smaller crop, lemon prices are expected to remain higher throughout the season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.