This should be a comeback year for most California-grown citrus fruit, if the state's groves can avoid another damaging freeze. Harvest has started for the state's most widely planted citrus, navel oranges, and the California Citrus Research Board says the buds producing this year's fruit escaped serious freeze damage. That's not so true for lemons, and production will rise only slightly from last season. But harvest of mandarins and other tangerines should rebound strongly.
Source: cfbf.com
Publication date: 11/14/2007
