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Disease, extreme weather push up orange juice prices

A trader displays fruits in Kisii town on May 6, 2024. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

Orange juice prices have always been volatile, falling when bumper harvests create an oversupply of oranges and rising when frost or a hurricane knocks out fruit trees.

But the record-high prices the world is seeing for OJ right now may be on the table for a while, since the diseases and extreme weather ravaging orange groves in some top-producing countries aren't easily resolved problems.

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