In an effort to ease the rising grapefruit juice inventory, the League requested that the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service consider a “bonus” purchase of grapefruit juice. On April 11, the League was notified that USDA will pursue a purchase of up to 2.5 million gallons of grapefruit juice using Farm Bill funds. This equates to 627,000 cases of grapefruit juice, which reduces inventory by 22 percent and will increase the delivered price next season substantially.
