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title: "Florida citrus is stabilizing, but the global market is still trading on scarcity - Interstate Commodities Corp"
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excerpt: "Florida’s latest USDA forecast offers a small but meaningful bright spot for the citrus market: supply is inching up from last year’s historic lows, but not enough to flood the market or crush prices. USDA raised Florida’s 2025–26 all-orange forecast to 12.2 million boxes, up from 12.0 million in January. Non-Valencia oranges rose to 4.70 […]"
datePublished: "2026-04-13T18:10:19+00:00"
dateModified: "2026-04-20T15:33:58+00:00"
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Florida citrus is stabilizing, but the global market is still trading on scarcity - Interstate Commodities Corp




# Florida citrus is stabilizing, but the global market is still trading on scarcity

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Florida’s latest USDA forecast offers a small but meaningful bright spot for the citrus market: supply is inching up from last year’s historic lows, but not enough to flood the market or crush prices.

USDA raised Florida’s 2025–26 all-orange forecast to 12.2 million boxes, up from 12.0 million in January. Non-Valencia oranges rose to 4.70 million boxes, Valencia stayed flat at 7.50 million, grapefruit moved to 1.25 million boxes, lemons to 900,000, and tangerines/tangelos to 450,000.

[Download the US Forecast](https://icccitrus.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/cit0426.pdf)

[Download the International Forecast](https://icccitrus.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/0426_Final-Orange-Crop-Forecast.pdf)

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