Flaws fill up for fruit farms

Polk County has been squeezed out of its No. 1 ranking as Florida's top citrus-producing county.
A citrus leader in the state since the 1950s, Polk County fell to third place in total boxes for the 2015-2016 season, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data released in mid-September. The No. 1 county for the year, with 14.3 million boxes of oranges, grapefruit, tangerines and tangelos, is Hendry, followed by DeSoto. Polk is third, with 12.5 million boxes.
Florida produced 94.2 million boxes in 2015-16 — a 16.5% drop from the previous season.