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Thanks to the damage sustained during a late spring freeze, there weren’t any Red Delicious apples for fancy packing at the Rappahannock Cold Storage plant in Sperryville last week.
the Foster Brother orchards in Flint Hill is proving his estimates to be correct.
INSTEAD of the regular harvest of 50,000 bushels of Yorks, Foster expects only 5,000. He estimates that he will get 100 bushels of Red Delicious, not the 10 to ^thousand bushels he anticipated before the freeze. A representative from National Fruit Product of Winchester, the company that processes a large share of Rappahannock apples, told Foster that they are planning on receiving 50,000 bushels. The figure falls far short of the 400,000 bushels that National Fruit normally handles.
The crop failure is having a major impact on apple prices. Last year, Foster Brothers charged $3.50 a bushel for Yorks and Golden Delicious, two and fiveeighth inches and up. This year, the same varieties, measuring two and a half inches and up, will sell for $6.50 a bushel. Apples under two and a half inches will cost $3 per hundred. Last year, they were $1.25.
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