[JamesSwift]

> Florida’s orange production in 1996 was 174 million boxes since 2020 it is around 52 million boxes

To be fair, the largest factor in that is citrus greening. The industry sort of threw its hands up and gave up on trying to fight it as far as I can tell.

[WarOnPrivacy]

A lot of orange groves were cut down for construction, 1990-2010.

I drove to Jax last week and saw some of the (long shuttered) orange-themed tourist shops off of 301/21/100. I had nearly forgotten they existed.

[JamesSwift]

Right, I think its cause and effect though. Once greening took hold a lot of groves saw the writing on the wall and shuttered/sold. Thats partially what happened to an iconic grove by me which operated for decades. Now their highway stand is being paved over to put in another storage facility.