Jeff Geuder, director of the Florida Agricultural Statistics Service, says the January freeze resulted in a reduction in their forecast of sugar cane.
The first crop forecast since the January freeze trimmed Florida’s expected orange crop by 4.4 percent and the grapefruit crop by 3.7 percent. Many expect further reductions in the March forecast. Hear more in this report.
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USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service released their January all cotton report for the 2009 crop this morning as Shiela Corley with NASS in Washington D.C. has the latest numbers.
According to the report released this morning, the U.S. peanut crop is a bit larger than what the numbers showed in December, as Tyron Spearman has updated figures for not only peanuts, but also corn, soybeans, and cotton.
Today Tyron Spearman looks at the latest estimates for both the cotton and pecan crops along with information from this week’s National Peanut Board meeting which took place in Atlanta.
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The National Agriculture Statistics Service released their monthly crop forecast for the 2009 cotton crop this morning as Shiela Corley with USDA NASS in Washington D.C. has the December numbers.
The Florida all orange forecast released today by the USDA Agricultural Statistics Board is 135.0 million boxes, comprised of 66.0 million boxes of 
Valencia oranges and 69.0 million boxes of the non-Valencia varieties (early, midseason, Navel, and Temple). The reduction of 1.0 million boxes is in the Valencia category. If realized, this forecast would be 17 percent less than last season’s production of 162.4 million boxes. In the past 8 non-hurricane seasons, the December forecast has differed from actual production by an average of 3 percent with 5 seasons above and 3 seasons below. USDA posts all of its citrus crop forecast information at its website at www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Florida/Publications/Citrus/cpfp.htm
Click the play icon below to hear Citrus Crop Statistics Administrator Candi Erick (photo) discuss this month’s crop forecast adjustments.
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The National Agriculture Statistics Service released their monthly crop forecast for the 2009 cotton crop this morning as Shiela Corley with USDA NASS in Washington D.C. has the November numbers.
Phil Rucks of Phillip Rucks Citrus Nursery says last week’s unexpectedly low orange crop forecast of 136 million boxes means higher fruit prices, hopefully giving growers more money to spend on new trees. He also points out that growers get higher production over time by replacing non-productive trees.
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By MICHAEL PELTIER – THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, Oct. 9, 2009…Florida’s citrus crop is down but has so far weathered the latest bacterial scare better than expected, state agricultural officials announced Friday following the release of a much awaited federal crop forecast.
The current year crop of oranges, grapefruit and other specialty fruit is expected to be off 14.5 percent from last year, but officials say that was actually good news because it shows the industry’s latest menace – citrus greening – may not be taking such a bite out of the state’s largest cash crop.
Overall production is expected to fall by 27.4 million boxes for the 2009/2010 growing season but will still produce 161.7 million boxes of citrus. Read the rest of this entry »
Citrus growers attending Friday morning “crop forecast” breakfasts around Florida broke into smiles when a 136-million-box orange crop forecast was announced. That much-lower-than-expected number should increase the prices growers receive and reduce excess orange juice inventories that put a damper on grower returns long term. In the first report here, Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff provides the forecasts for all Florida citrus varieties. In the second report, growers Larry Black (photo right), Mark Wheeler (left) and Jim Ellis (not pictured) tell why they’re happy about the forecast.
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the USDA seasonal citrus crop forecast. He also spoke to Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff after a citrus grower breakfast at Ray-Bob Groves near Alturas where Putnam and fellow citrus growers heard that the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture expects Florida’s citrus production to fall by 16 percent compared to last season.
“The low estimate should help growers by lifting cash market prices, but this number reflects a long-term loss of acreage due to development and disease,” said Putnam. “This is troubling, and all the more reason to press forward with aggressive research to meet the existential threat posed by citrus greening. A continued decline in acreage will impact processing and the economy of scale throughout the industry. A robust, homegrown citrus industry is better for the grower and the consumer.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tyron Spearman has a run-through of this morning’s crop forecasts issued by USDA NASS of the peanut, corn, soybean, and cotton crops.
The National Agriculture Statistics Service released their monthly crop forecast for the 2009 cotton crop this morning as Shiela Corley with USDA NASS in Washington D.C. has the October numbers.
Florida citrus growers are forecast to produce 136 million boxes of oranges for the 2009/2010 season, according to U. S. Department of Agriculture in its annual October Citrus Crop Forecast released Friday morning October 9. Early-Mids (includes 2.3 M boxes navels) came in at 69 million, and valencias projected at 67 million boxes. FCOJ content is projected at 1.63 gallons per box. The report also forecasts Florida’s grapefruit growers to produce 19.8 million boxes, 5.8 million in white varieties and 14 million in colored. U. S. total production for oranges is forecast at 192.45 million boxes and all U. S. grapefruit was projected to be 29.8 million boxes. This was the 14th consecutive year for Southeast AgNet’s ‘live’ radio coverage of the release, and the third year the broadcast was also streamed on the internet. USDA posts all of its citrus crop forecast information at its website at www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Florida/Publications/Citrus/cpfp.htm
Southeast AgNet wishes to extend its appreciation to the office of the Florida Agriculture Statistics Service and Citrus Statistics Administrator Candi Erick in particular (in photo) for their cooperation in providing ‘live’ coverage for growers and others industrywide for this important annual announcement.
Click the play icon to hear a recording of Candi’s “reading of the numbers” during Southeast AgNet’s “live” broadcast/webcast.
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USDA will release the annual Citrus Crop Forecast this Friday morning October 9 at 8:30 a. m. and Southeast AgNet Radio Network will broadcast it LIVE for the 14th consecutive year. Southeast AgNet has developed a fill-in-the-blank form that includes a look back at several previous years’ crops for comparison. CLICK HERE to view or print a copy of the form, and stay tuned to this website for a LIVE audio stream this Friday, or tune into one of Southeast AgNet’s affiliate radio stations to hear the special broadcast. Find more information about the LIVE broadcast/webcast, including a list of the radio stations expected to participate, by CLICKING HERE.
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Southeast AgNet is again the exclusive radio network source for the “live” coverage and again this year an audio stream will also be available here on this website at www.southeastagnet.com. The website audio stream will begin at approximately 8:20 a.m. during the countdown for the radio network to go ‘live’ at 8:29 a. m. Click Here for Fill In Blank Form.
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The National Agriculture Statistics Service released their monthly crop forecast for the 2009 cotton crop this morning as Shiela Corley with USDA NASS in Washington D.C. has the September numbers.
Tyron Spearman has a run-through of this morning’s crop forecasts issued by USDA NASS of the peanut, corn, soybean, and cotton crops.
Everyone knew the peanut crop would be lower this year, but this morning NASS released their first forecast for the 2009 crop as Tyron Spearman looks at that along with corn, soybean, and cotton numbers.
The National Agriculture Statistics Service released their first crop forecast for the 2009 cotton crop this morning as Shiela Corley with NASS in Washington D.C. has those numbers
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CLICK HERE to go to the Citrus Statistics page at the Florida Agriculture Statistics Service website where all the monthly citrus crop updates are stored…AND click the play icons below to hear from Citrus Statistics Administrator Candi Erick about the July numbers. We will have some more news for citrus growers from Florida Agriculture Statistics Service in coming days.
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This news release from Florida Citrus Mutual. Stay tuned to this website for comments from Candi Erick at the Florida Agriculture Statistics Service about this final forecast of the season, including what is being done to look into wide variations in forecast numbers in the specialty fruit sections of the forecasts this season.
LAKELAND, Fla. (Florida Citrus Mutual, July 10, 2009) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture raised Florida’s 2008-09 orange crop estimate by 2.5 million boxes to 162.1 million boxes in its final citrus forecast. Read the rest of this entry »
USDA’s Acreage Report released last week showed a few surprises for some Florida specialty crops. Jeff Geuder, director of the Florida Agricultural Statistics Service, tells us what crops are down and which ones are new on the survey.
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USDA’s Crop Report that was released this week showed an increase in Georgia cotton acreage and Richey Seaton, executive director of the Georgia Cotton Commission, says that Georgia is one of few states to show an increase.
With the release of USDA’s Acreage Report earlier this week, the following reports take a closer look at what the numbers say regarding Southeastern Agriculture.
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The National Agriculture Statistics Service released their June acreage reports this morning as cotton numbers are down according to Shiela Corley with NASS in Washington D.C.
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Many expected to see lower numbers of peanuts acres this year as have been waiting for the National Agriculture Statistics Service to release their yearly June acreage report. And according to Tyron Spearman, now that the figures are out, we are seeing the lowest numbers of peanut acres in quite some time.
USDA NASS
Many in agriculture are waiting to see how the acreage numbers look when the National Agriculture Statistics Service releases their annual crop acreage reports Tuesday morning, as Tyron Spearman said it’s really of interest to those in the peanut industry.
