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jmcquown wrote:
>
> Good thing I don't really like orange juice! Wonder why the
> grapefruit crops weren't similarly affected?


A big part of the reason is that nearly all of the orange
production is in Florida and California. However, about
a quarter of the grapefruit production in Texas, which
produced slightly more grapefruit than California in
2005/6.

For the details, see page 94 for oranges and page 76
for grapefruit:

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications...ok/FTS2006.pdf