# Insecticides and Oranges & juice

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/insecticides-and-oranges-and-juice/

[Insecticides](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/insecticides/) (chemical) and [Oranges & juice](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/orange/) (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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