California Citrus

2024 California Citrus Acreage Report

Statewide citrus bearing acreage relatively stable for past three seasons

The Pacific Regional Office of the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts an acreage survey of California citrus growers as funding is available. The purpose of this survey is to provide bi-annual citrus acreage, which includes information on new plantings and removals. It is the continuation of a long series of industry-funded Citrus Acreage surveys.

This report consists of two parts:

Table 1 shows estimated statewide bearing acreage for the 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons.
Tables 2, 3, 4 and 5 show detailed acreage data by type, variety, and year planted -- as voluntarily reported by citrus growers and maintained in NASS' database.

With perfect information, the estimated statewide bearing acreage and the detailed acreage data would be the same. Generally, this will not be the case for the following reasons:

A voluntary survey of approximately 5,000 citrus growers is unlikely to ever attain 100 percent completeness.
It is difficult for USDA/NASS to detect growers who are planting citrus for the first time.

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