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A Domestic Vanilla Industry Is Slowly Unfurling in Florida | Ambrook Research

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The U.S. is the world’s top importer of vanilla beans, but American production has been minimal — until now.

The U.S. is the world’s top importer of vanilla beans, but American production has been minimal — until now. Anybody who’s taken a stroll down the baking aisle knows how valuable real vanilla — not the low-rent imitation stuff — is. Whole vanilla beans can fetch anywhere between $6 and $8 each, and more if they’re organic. That’s a premium price that most American farmers aren’t able to capitalize on, since vanilla orchid vines require tropical environments with high temperatures and humidity in order to thrive. Read Next Will Rising Temperatures Force Cranberry Production to Move North? Bean

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