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Navel orange harvest approaches: smaller crop but excellent !
United States
Thursday 23 October 2008
California navel orange growers in Kern County may begin picking fruit this weekend depending on fruit color.
Cool nights are needed for the fruit to turn orange. It will be the last week of October before navel oranges show up in retail stores.
The crop is smaller than last year's record-setting one. Farmers aren't surprised as orange trees sometimes produce less after a heavy crop and weather at bloom time last spring was not ideal. Growers say fruit quality is excellent.
