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Apple
Outlook
(Continued from Page 1) Snead acknowledged. “We need to get a better price for these apples. “He noted that more apple trees were going out of production in Rappahannock each season than were being reset. “There are no new orchards being planted at all.” he added.
Snead and other Virginia growers support recently introduced federal legislation that will allow farmers to form marketing associations. The National Agricultural Bargaining Act of 1979 is a means to put apple growers in a position to negotiate with processors for a fair price, according to Snead.
Even with the tool that this legislation would provide, orchardists will have to keep struggling, he maintained. Snead sees cooperative processing plants owned by growers as the ultimate answer. “We’re going to have to enter the market,” he concluded. “The competition’s going to have to come from somewhere.”
For the present, however, Snead and other Rappahannock apple growers are holding their collective breaths until September 4 when National Fruit announces the verdict on this year’s prices.
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