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The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday left unchanged a forecast for Florida orange production in the 2023-2024 growing season but cut projections for grapefruit and tangerines and tangelos. The federal forecast came the same week that a new state budget included at least $22.7 million to combat citrus greening disease, which has ravaged the industry for two decades. “This is the way I view the world today, I’ll take a buck any day,” incoming Senate President Ben Albritton, a Wauchula Republican and citrus grower, said Thursday. “Two dollars would have been nice, but $1 is fine. One doll…

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