USDA data: America’s cold-stored orange juice stockpiles down 43%, the lowest level since 1977

 The United States stockpiles of cold-stored orange juice have plunged by 43 percent in September from a year earlier

• This is due to a combination of crop diseases across Florida's citrus groves and the wrath of Hurricane Ian
• orange juice futures surged to as high as $2.18 per pound.

Economists: Higher prices are the cure for higher prices

• Farmers can have more incentive to produce more of their crop when the price of the fruit is higher
• Brazil is the world's largest orange producer and provides half of the juice
• The forthcoming Brazilian crop is set to be far larger than last year's
• While not all of the oranges will get converted into juice, the availability of oranges in itself is a key factor

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• FDA takes stand for public health, resists industry pressures to increase allowable levels of toxic fungicide carbendazim in orange juice product imports
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