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Bacon and Chicken Up, OJ Too

Higher retail prices for several foods, including bacon, chicken breast, orange juice, sliced deli ham and flour resulted in a slight increase in the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Fall Harvest Marketbasket Survey. The informal survey shows the total cost of 16 food items that can be used to prepare one or more meals was $51.13, up $1.43, or about 3 …

Five Keys to Successful Citrus Degreening
By Mark A. Ritenour Many Florida citrus varieties reach legal maturity before developing the bright orange or yellow peel color consumers expect. As a result, fresh-market fruit often require degreening, a postharvest process that exposes harvested fruit to low concentrations of ethylene gas, a natural plant hormone that promotes chlorophyll breakdown and allows underlying yellow […]
Greening Growth Rate in Brazil Slows to Nine-Year Low
The 2026 citrus disease incidence survey conducted by Fundecitrus shows that greening affected 48.08% of orange trees in Brazil’s Citrus Belt spanning São Paulo and the Triângulo/Southwest Minas Gerais regions. This is a 0.9% increase compared to 2025, when the incidence rate was 47.63%. The rise was just 0.45% — significantly lower than the 3.28% […]