Florida oranges are harder to come by after recent hurricanes impacted production at farms across the state.The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts the state’s citrus season, which runs from October to June on average, will be worse than last year.Florida is expected to produce 12 million 90-pound boxes of oranges from 2024 to 2025, according to the USDA. That number is down by nearly six million boxes after 17.96 million were produced during the 2023 to 2024 season.Matthew Schorner, the general manager of Al’s Family Farms, said his farm was struck by tornadoes during Hurricane Milton in October.HURRICANE MILTON RELIEF EFFORTS: THESE COMPANIES ARE HELPING AFFECTED COMMUNITIES”It may have been twenty tornadoes. Who knows how many popped up in that giant black cloud,” Schorner said.Al’s Family Farms has been shipping citrus across the country for nearly five decades. They box up fruit in a packaging building that had survived dozens of hurricanes, until Hurricane Milton.”It’s amazing to see how many hurricanes this building endured, and then it was all just crushed,” Schorner said. “I looked at it and I was like wow. I couldn’t believe it – I’m in tears – I can’t believe it. What am I going to
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Father-daughter duo sells American-grown coffee using 'innovative' technique
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When 6-year-old Charli Johnson suggested starting a coffee business to her dad, T. Shane Johnson, he thought it would be a valuable teaching opportunity and a “great way” for them to spend time together.”It was just one of those kind of ‘aha moments’ as a dad,” T. Shane Johnson, a Marine Corps veteran, told FOX Business. “A lot of kids come up to you and say, ‘I want to do dance or football or baseball.’ We jumped right into it together.”The father-daughter duo launched Big Guns Coffee in 2021, which today sells 38 coffee blends, as well as soaps and candles, both online and at a brick-and-mortar store in Tryon, North Carolina. Its products are available in stores across the country, according to T. Shane Johnson.”At the same time, we are franchising our farms to Montana, Kentucky, California and other different places,” Charli Johnson added.SMALL FAMILY FARMS MAKE AMERICAN-GROWN ROASTED COFFEE THE WORLD’S BEST BREWBig Guns Coffee’s most popular products are its Charli’s Blend, a bold dark roast, and The Motivator, a medium roast.BOY SWEETLY PRETENDS TO SERVE COFFEE TO HIS OLDER SISTERSAmerican-grown coffee is not common in areas outside California, Hawaii, Florida and Puerto Rico, according to T. Shane Johnson.