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Apple Exporter*
To encourage fresh Apple *ex-‘ ports the U. S. Department of Agriculture has announced that it' will, pay shippers one half the purchase price, freight alongside ship, not to exceed $1.25 per bu.
The program, which is practically the same as that on last year’s crop, became effective September 11 and will extend through May,' 1951. It is available to exporters of apples produced in the United States meeting at least ,U. S. No.. 1 or State Fancy grade and packed in new export tub ' baskets or boxes in accordance with program requirements. Complete information on the program and forms used thereunder may be obtained from Norman F. Horsey, Fruit and Vegetable Branch, PMA, U. S. Department of Agri/culture, Washington, 25, D. C.
According to R. B. Bridgforth, state chairman of the Production Marketing Administration, considerable interest in the program is expected. He said that Virginia shippers under the 1949-50 export program shipped 149,819 bushels of apples on which they received USDA payments of $165,112, averaging about $1.10 per bushel, in addition to the export sales price. ;
Recent figures from the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations . show that apple exports from the United States have slumped sharply from pre-war, levels; 1% the ' period 1335-39,’ exports a&fi»ge<T 9,730,000 bushels per year; dropped to 894,000 per yjear during the 1940-44 war period; and have averaged only 2> 852,000 per year since the war. Last year exports were down to 1,853,000 bushels. Imports in the United Kingdom, one of the big markets for apples, have dropped to about one-third of the 13,638,000 bushel pre-war average. The Fresh Apple Export Program seeks to restore some of these overseas markets.
A better than average apple crop in Virginia is expected byBureau of Agricultural Economics statisticians. Their September crop report shows an indicated commercial apple crop here mf 11,730,000 bushels this year, compared to a production of 8,525,; 000 last year, and a ten-year (1939-48) average of 9,589,000.
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