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Florida may still have the orange on its license plates. But if you want to find juice made from 100% Florida-grown oranges, you won’t find it any more under the big brand names.
Florida grapefruit industry seeing minimal fruit loss post Hurricane Ian
Some oranges and grapefruit are rotting in containers as the ongoing supply chain crisis at U.S. ports delays ...
So far i've been picking oranges for three hours. i can honestly tell you it does not get easier as the day goes on. for so-called unskilled labor, it's a lot tougher than it looks. that's two down. lots more to go. i'm not just the worst picker in the field today. i'm also the only american citizen. every single worker here with me today is a foreign citizen on an h-2a visa. but h-2a is unpopular with most employers. in fact, only 4% of businesses that can use it do so. riverfront packing is the largest grapefruit distributor in florida, and they don't participate in the program. >> we have a...
So far i've been picking oranges for three hours. i can honestly tell you it does not get easier as the day goes on. for so-called unskilled labor, it's a lot tougher than it looks. that's two down. lots more to go. i'm not just the worst picker in the field today. i'm also the only american citizen. every single worker here with me today is a foreign citizen on an h-2a visa. but h-2a is unpopular with most employers. in fact, only 4% of businesses that can use it do so. riverfront packing is the largest grapefruit distributor in florida, and they don't participate in the program. >> we have a...