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RAPPAHANNOCK apple growers disagree with the revised estimates released by the Virginia Crop reporting service, that predict 4,405,000 bushels of apples will be harvested in Virginia this year. The revised estimate is an increase of 1,191,000 bushels from the July estimate.
“They’re all wet,” said Lucio Kilby of Rappahannock Cold Storage in Sperryville. “A short crop is a short crop,” he maintained, and no amount of estimate revisions could change that.
Rappahannock’s apple crop was severely damaged by a late freeze, with temperatures dipping into the twenties the weekend of April 10. At that time, some estimates went as high as 90 percent crop loss. Red Delicious apples, the “money crop,” sustained the most damage.
H. B. Wood of Woodville said he had seen nothing to make him revise his estimates on his crop loss. Ned Johnson from Sperryville agreed. Both men predicted a harvest only 25 percent of normal.
“NOW they’re two million off,” commented Charles Foster, in reference to the revised estimates. Foster maintains that the initial estimate by the Crop Reporting Service was one million bushels over the number that Virginia orchardists will actually harvest.
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