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By Daphne Hutchinson
Virginia apple producers came out on the short end of the limb during the 1978 crop year.
According to statistics released by the United States Department of Agriculture, growers here received substantially less for their fruit than did producers in other states, as the following table in price per hundred weight illustrates.
The price of juice and peeler apples in Washington State as of July, 1979, is $9 per hundred pounds, according to USDA.
In a move to improve opportunities for Virginia apple growers, the Virginia Farm Bureau Apple \ Marketing Association has thrown its support behind a federal farm marketing bill currently under consideration by Congress.
Sam Snead of Washington, chairman of the Farm Bureau Committee, and F.T. Valley orchardist Jens Tholand recently attended hearings with Representative Alson Smith in Washington on the National Agricultural Bargaining Act of 1979 (H. R. 3535).
Snead explained that the Farm Bureau’s Marketing Committee was supporting HJR. 3535 “as a means, it hopes, to put apple growers in a position to negotiate with processors so the income from their produce will be better.” V-\ i'%
Snead emphasised that die bargaining act wa* enabling legislation only, in that it allowed but did not
TOTAL
Maryland Michigan New York North Carolina Pennsylvania South Carolina Virginia West Virginia Washington
CANNED JUICE FROZEN PROCESSED
$5.25 $4.85 $6.20 $5.10
6.20 4.50 6.40 5.40
5.55 4.30 6.25 5.15
6.20 4.70 NA 5.20
5.55 4.40 6.30 5.15
5.50 4.90 NA 5.25
4.95 4.40 NA 4.67
5.25 4.25 5.50 4.87
8.15 8.00 NA 8.15
74.4%