Not saying it would change much, but there has not been a governor of Florida that wasn't Republican since 1999. 2003 they produced 22 billion pounds of Oranges. 2026 they are unsure they can produce 1 billion pounds. That's with technoligical improvements for planting, harvesting, etc. So maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, but shouldnt the government step in, find a way to mandate getting rid of the diseased trees and the underlying causes and transplant something successful that would be immune if you can't remove the causes, like Italy and France did when they worked with California to transplant all their vineyards because they would all die from root rot until they found out the roots in California were immune, and grafted the grapes onto those roots and rebuilt everything?

What is government for if an industry so large in your location that it is the default license plate is completely dying with "no known cure."

Oranges from Florida have always been sweeter/juicer or whatever than those from California, while Californias are more shelf stable. But the reason you get orange juice made in Florida... Is for that reason. It tastes better. Maybe Florida should be telling the federal government if they want to launch rockets/shuttles from and retrieve them from their shores, they need the federal government to give a fuck about their issues.

Diabetes did.

I'm assuming it's the citrus greening disease. I'm not clicking the bait, but that has been rampant in recent years. One can assume whoever was working on it at the FDA got labeled as woke waste fraud and abuse and probably is no longer employed, so I can't imagine that's gotten any better in the last 2 years.

I had noticed real orange juice was barely available anymore but I didn’t realize how bad it had gotten.