date:Dec 05, 2012
a temporary drop, sugar levels should come back up soon.
Price and demand are also similar to previous years, and shipment levels are almost identical to those recorded at this time last year. Such regularity is good for the state's growers, who had to contend with much more adverse conditions just a few years ago.
We'd had problems with drought the past seven or eight years, ever since the hurricanes in 2004 and 2005, he said. But this is the first year with ample rains; the trees are reboun