Insecticides and Oranges & juice

Their prices have moved together.

Insecticides (chemical) and Oranges & juice (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: crop protection

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Citrus greening spreads through a tiny insect, the psyllid, so growers spray insecticides heavily to slow it. Monthly moves correlate at 0.07 and the last five years at 0.17; the cost matters to growers but does not drive orange prices.

• 0.07 monthly change correlation
• -0.01 12-month change correlation
• 0.68 fitted elasticity

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