TANGELOS: Production in Florida is forecast at a record 5.5 million boxes, unchanged from last
month but 17 percent above the previous record set last season, Harvest is nearing
90 percent completion.

TANGERINES: The U. S$. tangerine production is expected to total 5.6 million boxes, 6 percent
above the 1974-75 crop. The Florida production of 3.4 million boxes is for that
portion of the crop expected to be utilized. (The total crop that reached 210 size or Larger
was 5.3 million boxes.) Harvest is virtually complete in Florida. The crops in California and
Arizona, at 1.5 million and 0.7 million boxes, respectively, are unchanged from last month.

TEMPLES: Florida's temple crop is forecast at 5.5 million boxes, unchanged from last month but
4 percent above last season. Harvest is 32 percent complete compared with 29 percent
last yeac.

POTATOES: Output of winter crop potatoes in California and Florida is now forecast at 3.1 mil-
lion cwt., 5 percent above the January 1 forecast and 8 percent higher than the 1975
crop,

California's production is estimated at 1.20 million cwt., up 13 percent from 1975. Yields
are expected to average 230 cwt. per acre, an improvement from both last month and a year ago.
Digging is well along in Kern and Riverside Counties and has started in the central San Joaquin
area. Grade~out has been variable due to earlier frost damage.

The Florida crop is now forecast at 1.93 million cwe., 5 percent above both last month and
1975 due to record setting yields. The crop is in good condition in spite of cold January
temperatures, Harvest is increasing, mostly in Everglades and Martin Counties. Digging of reds
will get underway in the Southwest in early February and in Dade County later in the month.

POTATOES

SEASONAL ‘AREA HARVESTED YEELD PER ACRE PRODUCTION

ote 1974} 1975 ee 197 51975 FTNDICATED: 974? 1975 eepecaTeD
1,000 ACRES Git i, 000 Cur

WINTER:

CALLE 44 4,9 5.2 265 215-230 1,166 1,054 1,196

FLA 1 93 9.4 94 190 195-205 1,767 -1,833-1,927

TOTAL 13.7 14.3 14.6 214 202214 2,933 2,887 «3,123

CROP PRODUCTION, FEBRUARY 1976 5 CROP REPORTING BOARD, SRS, USDA





Wheat in the Northern Great Plains varied from fair to good depending on temperatures and
protective snow cover. In Nebraska, the condition was mostly fair. South Dakota wheat was in
fair to good condition in the central, northern, and eastern parts of the winter wheat belt and
poor to fair elsewhere. Spring-like weather eliminated the snow cover in the winter wheat belt
the last half of January.

In the Pacific Northwest a light snow cover and mild temperatures near the end of January
made the crop vulnerable to cold temperatures, but the crop was in good condition on February 1.

In the East North Central States wheat was in good condition. Near the end of January, ice
in Indiana created a chance of some smothering of the crop. In Illinois a light snow cover suffi-
ciently protected the wheat to keep it in good condition

ORANGES: The 1975-76 U.S. orange crop is forecast at 230.7 million boxes, down slightly from

last month and 3 percent below last season. In Florida prospects continue to indicate
a crop of 172.0 million boxes, unchanged from last month but 1 percent below last season, Early
and mid-season oranges at 98.0 million boxes are 1 percent above last season. Harvest of early
and mid-season oranges is about 70 percent complete, ‘The Valenica orange crop in Florida at 74.0
million boxes is 4 percent below last season.

The California February 1 forecast, at 49,0 million boxes, is unchanged from last month but
11 percent below last season. Navel production is set at 26.0 million boxes, also unchanged from
last month and off 7 percent from last season, Prospects on February 1 for Valencia oranges, at
23.0 million boxes, are 15 percent below last season. Texas orange prospects at 5.8 million
boxes are unchanged from last month but 28 percent above last season's short crop. Arizona orange
production is now forecast at 3.9 million boxes, 23 percent less than the 1974-75 season.

Chafiges in U.S. production between the February 1 forecast and final production have averaged
6.6 million boxes over the past 10 seasons, ranging from 1.5 million boxes in 1971-72 to 18.3
million boxes in 1970-71.

FLORIDA FROZEN CONCENTRATED JUICE YIELD: The all orange juice yield for 1975-76 is projected at
1.31 gallons of 45 degree brix concentrate per box.
Final yield from the 1974-75 crop was 1.31 gallons per box.

GRAPEFRUIT: U. S. production of grapefruit is forecast at 69.8 million boxes, unchanged from
last month but 14 percent above last season. Florida growers expect to harvest 50.0

million boxes, 12 percent above the 1974-75 season. The Texas crop, forecast at 11,0 million

boxes, is 51 percent above last season's short crop. The California crop at 5.7 million boxes

is 15 percent below last season. Arizona prospects at 3.1 million boxes are 12 percent above

last season,

Harvest of grapefruit in the U. S. was 34 percent complete on February 1 compared with 35
percent last season. In Florida, harvest is 37 percent complete compared with 38 percent last
season. Harvest is underway in Arizona and California where 13 and 6 percent, respectively, of
the crop has been harvested.

Changes in the U. $. production between the February 1 forecast and final production have
averaged 2.1 million boxes over the past ten years, ranging from 0.5 million boxes in 1965-66 to
4,3 million boxes in 1968-69.

LEMONS: Prospects in California at 17.0 million boxes are down 3 percent from last month and 23
percent below the 1974-75 crop. Crop prospects in Arizona are unchanged from last month
at 2.3 million boxes but are 68 percent less than last season.

Picking of the California lemon crop is virtually complete in the Desert Valleys, over half

complete in the central area and about 15 percent complete elsewhere. The Arizona crop is about
85 percent harvested. Sizes are generally small.

CROP PRODUCTION, FEBRUARY 1976 4 CROP REPORTING BOARD, SRS, USDA


CITRUS FRUIT 1/

: PRupUCT LON PRODUCTION
CROP : BOXES, 3 TON EQUIVALENT
AND : UTILIZED TINDICATEO? UTIL T7£0 TINDICATED
STATE 3 1973-74 * 1974-75 # 1975-76 = 1973-74 ¢ 1974-75 ? 1975-76
t 19000 UNITS 27 1,000 UNITS
ORANGESSEARLY MI & NAVEL 37
ARI? t 450 920 750 47 35 28
CALIF z 215900 244000 26,000 62) 14050 975
FLA : 929100 964600 98,000 414s 4347 4,410
TEX 3 44200 24930 3,800 179 125 162
us + 118,690 1284450 128,550 Sel6e $997 5,575
ORANGES «VALENCIA :
anIZ 3 2,960 46050 35100 oat 192 lle
CALIF U 185500 27,100 23,000 694 1,016 863
FLA + 734700 764700 74,000 39337 39452 3,330
TEX : 24490 +610 2000 loz 68 85
us + 974560 1094460 = 102, 100 41224 4088 4,394
ALL ORANGES t
ARIZ + 341g 46970 3e85u 128 187 144
CALIF 4 404400 55,100 49,000 26515 25066 1,838
FLA + 1654800 172,000 79462 7799 7,740
TEK ry 6600 Ss8u0 281 493 247
us # 2169210 2374920 230,650 99386 109245 9,969
TEMPLES
FLB % d300 $7300 SsS00 239 239 aaa
GRAPEFRUITswHITE SEENLESS +
FLA : 234900 25,900 28.000 stoi stoi Lelyu
GRAPEFRUIT SPINK SEEULESS ry
FLA + 129200 114500 13.000 $19 489 593
GRAPEFRUIT sOTHER
La + 10000 7,200 93000 425 306 363
ALL GRAPEFRUIT :
ARIZ ’ 29050 25770 39100 66 89 99
CALIF :
DESERT : 29360 34750 34200 i 120 102
OTHER AREAS t 24290 2,950 2500 77 99 84
TOTAL : 46650 64700 39700 153 219 186
FLA + 48,100 444600 209000 24045 14896 2,126
TEX z 109700 74300 114000 428 eg2 ay
us + 659500 62.370 694800 26692 29496 2,851
TANGERINES :
ARIZ : 680 610 650 26 23 ze
CALIF $ 14360 14540 16500 SL 58 56
FLa : 25400 34100 3,400 133 147 162
us : 46840 5,250 5,550 210 228 242
LEMONS :
ARIZ : 21900 29300 lly are er
CALIF 144900 1/4000 $66 Baa 646
Us t 179800 199300 o76 16118 733
TANGELOS 3
FLA : 39700 4,700 595u0 167 2l2 248

1/ THE CROP YEAR BEGINS WITH THE BLOOM OF THE FIRST YEAR
SHOWN ANU ENDS WITH YEAR HARVEST IS COMPLETED.

2/ NET LBS PEK SOX! ORANGES= CALIF & AKIZ=755 FLA~90¢
TEX=854 GRAPEFRUIT= CALIF DESERT 4 ARIZ-64» CALIF
OTHER=67¢ FLA-8S4 TEX-80$ LEMONS=761 TANGELOS &
TEMPLES=904 TANGERINES= CALIF & ARIZ=75, FLAW95.

3/ NAVEL ANU MISCELLANEOUS VARIETIES IN CALIFORNIA AND
ARIZONA, EARLY AND MIDSEASON VARTETIES IN FLORLOA ANO
TEXAS» INCLUDING SMALL QUANTITIES OF TANGERINES IN
TEXAS.

CROP PRODUCTION, FEBRUARY 1975 6 CROP REPORTING BOARD» SRS* US0A



crop production

(—

Released:
February 10, 1976
3:00 P.M. ET

HIGHLIGHTS

CITRUS production is expected to total 14.3 million,tons, down 1
percent from January 1 and 2 percent below the 1974-75 crop.

ORANGE production is forecast at 230.7 million boxes, down slightly
from the January 1 forecast, and 3 percent (7.3 million boxes)
below last season's record crop of 237.9 million boxes.

GRAPEFRUIT production is forecast at 69.8 million boxes, unchanged
from January 1, and 14 percent (8.4 million boxes) above last
season.

LEMON crop prospects at 19.3 million boxes are down 3 percent (0.5
million boxes) from January 1 and are 34 percent below the
previous season.

POTATOES - Winter production for 1976 is forecast at 3.1 million
cwt., 5 percent above January 1 and 8 percent above a year
earlier.

~~

7

UNITED STATES PEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
STATISTICAL REPORTING SERVICE CROP REPORTING BOARD
CrPr 2~2 (2-76) WASHINGTON, D.C. 20250





UNITED STATES CROP SUMMARY
(DOMESTIC UNITS)
CITRUS FRUITS, PRODUCTION 1/

INDICATED 1975-76

CROP : 1974-75

JAN 2 A FEB L
1,000 BOXES
ORANGES : 237,910 230,700 230,650
GRAPEFRUIT : 61,370 69,800 69,800
LEMONS : 29,400 19,800 19,300

17 SEASON BEGINS WITT BLOOM OF THE FIRST YEAR SHONN AND ENDS WITH THE COMPLETION OF
HARVEST THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

POTATOES
TAREA HARVESTED :VIELD PER ACRE = PRODUCTION
SEASONAL : > INDI- + TNDI- + +_INDICATED 1976
GROUP : 1975: CATED : 1975; CATED : 1978 JAN FEE
: 11976: 11976: od 1
T,000 ACRES Cut 1,000 CHT
WINTER 13 14.6 202 214 2,887 2,977 3,123
UNITED STATES CROP SUMMARY
(METRIC UNITS)
CITRUS FRUITS, PRODUCTION
7 : - INDICATED 1975-76
CROP 1 __*(1974-75 TANI FEET
1,000 METRIC TO!
ORANGES : 9,294 9,046 9,044
GRAPEFRUIT 3 2,264 2,586 2,586
LEMONS : i,014 682 665
POTATOTS,
T AREA HARVESTED YTELD PER TIECTARE PRODUCTION
SEASONAL 5 7 INDT- _ FSDI- INDICATED 1970
GROUP : 1975 : CATED : 1975: CAI 1978 “TAN FER
: 11976: 11976 ee es oe
1,000 TECTARES —UENTALS 1,000 HETRIC TONS
Wit TER 1 5.8 3.9 226 241. 331 135 142

The CROP PRODUCTION report contains State and National estimates
with related information on selected agricultural commodities. These
data were prepared and adopted by the Crop Reporting Board which con-
sists of commodity statisticians from the Statistical Reporting Service's
field officer and Washington headquarters.

AP PRO VED: CROP REPORTING BOARD:
vA Y > a B. M. Graham, Chairman,

j _ M. L. Koehn, Secretary,
She ML Pe F. EB. Rolf, R. A. McGregor,
SU CAM LY R. M. Albert, D. J. Buckner,
ACTING SECRETARY OP AGRICULTURE R. H. Hettinger, D. H. Johnson.

CRO® PRODUCTION, FEBRUARY 1976 2 CROP REPORTING BOARD, SRS, USDA


JANUARY WEATHER

The most notable feature of the January weather was below normal precipitation over most of
the Nation, The Southern Plains, the Southwest and California were hurt by the dry month.
Exceptions to the dryness were the Northeast and North Central Plains where heavy snows occurred,
and portions of the Southeast and the Pacific Northwest where rainfall was normal or better.
Temperatures averaged below normal east of the Mississippi River Valley and above normal to the
west with the exception of the Central and Southern Rockies where temperatures averaged 3 to 5
degrees below normal, Elsewhere in the West, temperature averages ranged from near normal along
the central coastline to 10 to 12 degrees above normal in Montana.

The shortage of January precipitation following a dry December was especially serious in
California, where January is the mid-month of their three month rainy season. The winter
rain and snow in the California mountains normally supplies most of the irrigation water used
during the rest of the year. Also serious is the lack of snow cover in the Central Plains where

temperature has been above normal and precipitation below normal. The dry, bare ground is subject
to severe wind erosion,

January began with a powerful winter storm that moved from the Pacific Northwest into the
Central Rockies and then spread into the Northern Plains, creating blizzard to near blizzard
conditions over much of the western two~thirds of the Nation. ‘Temperatures averaged 10 to 12
degrees below normal in the Central Rockies. Elsewhere, heavy precipitation focused along the
Appalachians, lower Nississippi Valley and central Gulf States. By the end of the week freezing
temperatures pushed all the way to the Gulf of Mexico and zero weather encompassed most of the
Rocky Mountains and upper Plains to Lake Michigan. During the second week of the month nearly all
of the area from the Rockies eastward had below normal temperatures with the greatest departures
of 10 to 12 degrees below normal occurring in the Northern Plains and along the Appalachians and
12 to 15 degrees below normal in New England. The southern limit of zero degrees fell along a
line from southern New England to the Texas Panhandle and northern New Mexico and northward along
the Rockies. Freezing weather pushed into central Florida. The heaviest precipitation occurred
in the Pacific Northwest with more than five inches along the Oregon Coast, along the Appalachians
and in the Southeast. Early in the week blustery winter wind and swirling snow spread misery from
Kansas through Towa and into Michigan and then on through New England but by the end of the week
the wind and warming weather had cleared the shortlived snow cover from the Central Plains.

Temperatures warmed in the Central Plains during the third week of the month and alJ areas
west of the Mississippi River averaged above normal, Departures ranged from 3 degrees above
normal in Texas to 12 degrees above in parts of Kansas and Nebraska to 18 degrees above normal in
north central Montana. East of the Mississippi averages ranged from 3 to 9 degrees below normal.
Precipitation was sparse nationwide. Large areas of the West and Southwest recorded no precipita-
tion at all. An exception was the heavy snow squall that dumped 15 inches of snow near Oswego,

N. Y., this is not coo unusual for western New York at this time of year.

The month ended with precipitation falling mostly from the Appalachians to the East Coast
where 2 inches or better fell during the last week. Westward, amounts ranged from 0,3 inches to
none. Temperatures were colder than normal only in the Great Lakes area and in the extreme South.

WINTER WHEAT

Winter wheat prospects during January lagged behind other recent years in most areas of the
Nation, and by February 1 stands in the major winter wheat areas were below normal.

In the Southern Great Plains, wheat was mostly dormant during the coldest part of January.

As temperatures increased later in the month, growth began at a very slow rate because soil
moisture was short. Moderate temperatures also increased greenbug and cutworm activity. The
Oklahoma crop is fair to poor. Greenbugs were thick, requiring relatively heavy control measures.
Dryland wheat in the Panhandle is in trouble. Some irrigating was done during January on irrigat~
ed fields. Late planted acreage is susceptible to blowing dust and wind erosion. Kansas wheat
prospects are good in the eastern third of the State but poor to fair elsewhere. Low topsoil
moisture and short vegetative cover left many wheat fields subject to erosion from strong winds.
Texas wheat on the High and Low Plains made little growth with most stands in the dormant stage.

CROP PRODUCTION, FEBRUARY 1976 3 CROP REPORTING BOARD, SRS, USDA