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If we had an award of recognition for years of dedicated service to the citrus industry, we’d give it to Bob Terry. He plans to retire the first of June. He’s been handling citrus statistics for Florida Ag Statistics Service, working hand-in-hand with USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service for many years. He’s been a regular guest on our radio network and the featured guest of our “LIVE” October Citrus Crop Forecast Broadcast for more than a decade. We’ll talk to him about that between now and then. Meanwhile, in this report, Terry talks about what his team is noticing around the citrus crop in recent days and weeks. Report (1:00 mp3)
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In this report, Crop Statistics Administrator for the Florida Ag Statistics Service, Bob Terry, discusses the December 2007 citrus crop forecast update released this morning. Report (approx 4:00 mp3)
The full report is now also posted to the USDA/NASS/FASS website.
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In this report, Citrus Statistics Administrator Bob Terry with USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service explains the main to factors influencing this year’s October Citrus Crop Forecast. Report (2:00 mp3)

In these reports, comments regarding USDA’s Citrus Crop Forecast announced last Friday and the outlook for immigration reform in Congress…We caught up with Florida Congressman Adam Putnam, whose family grows citrus in Polk County, at the Ray-Bob Groves Grower Breakfast where a hundred-plus growers gathered last week to hear the crop forecast broadcast.
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In these next reports, comments from Florida Citrus Mutual CEO Mike Sparks on the recent citrus crop forecast and labor issues.
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Listen to the recording of the 2007-2008 Citrus Crop Forecast given this morning by USDA-NASS Bob Terry.

 Citrus Crop Forecast (8:30 mp3)

2007-2008 Citrus Crop Forecast Chart (pdf)

Here is the official USDA Crop Report Document too… (pdf)

In one of these two reports, USDA’s Bob Terry reviews the key Florida portions of the citrus crop forecast.  In the other report, Florida Citrus Mutual Past President, Board Member and Citrus Grower Marty McKenna comments on the crop forecast moments after its release.

Citrus Grower Marty McKenna  Report (2:00 mp3)

USDA/NASS Bob Terry comments  Report (2:00 mp3)

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In these reports, on the eve of another Citrus Crop Forecast release set for this Friday morning, reflections on future tree and crop counts from the man who administers citrus crop forecast numbers and other citrus statistics at USDA’s Agriculture Statistics Services. Based at the Orlando offices of the USDA & Florida Ag Statistics Service, Bob Terry says he plans to retire at the end of this citrus season next June. We recently asked him for comments about crop and tree counts going forward after recent tree count updates showed declines in overall Florida tree numbers.
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Citrus growers everywhere have some options to tune in for Southeast AgNet’s “live” broadcast coverage of the USDA Citrus Crop Forecast this Friday morning.  Stallings Crop Insurance is sponsoring our coverage this year. Stallings is also sponsoring their second annual country breakfast for citrus growers and industry leaders at Ray-Bob Groves near Alturas. Click on the display in this post for a map to this beautiful lakeside grove barn, and join us as we anchor the broadcast from this location. Grower groups will also gather members in Arcadia, Wauchula and Sebring, joining others in homes, pickups and offices throughout the citrus belt as they tune in to the broadcast on one of our radio station affiliate stations. Southeast AgNet will also stream the broadcast “live” on the internet. Find the link to the audio stream at our Southeast AgNet home page, in fact, there is a test message already available on line at that location. Hear more in this Report (2:00 mp3)

USDA will release its official Citrus Crop Forecast at 8:30 a.m. Friday October 12. Once again Southeast AgNet will provide “live” coverage through the radio network and on its websites. There will be several grower breakfasts taking place in different parts of the state. In this report, Bob Stallings of Stallings Crop Insurance discusses the second annual crop forecast grower breakfast he is hosting at his Ray-Bob Groves location in Polk County near Alturas. There are also grower breakfasts set for other areas, among them, one at the Elks Club in Arcadia, another at Joe Davis’ Barn near Wauchula, those two organized by Peace River Citrus Growers Association, and another at the offices of Highlands County Citrus Growers Association in Sebring. Report (2:00 mp3)
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