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processors in the northern states sending representatives down to Rappahannock to check on buying apples here because of reduced harvests in their areas. “There’s a demand. Sure, they want the apples — if you give them to them. It doesn't mean they’re going to pay us a good price. It only means they should,” he said.
The Rappahannock orchardist acknowledged that canneries and processor are caught in the same economic squeeze that’s choking businesses throughout the country. “They’re paying more for their labor, for their bottles and cans, for a lot of things...They’re robbing Peter to pay Paul and it's usually the farmer who gets robbed,’’ Snead said.
Despite his disappointment in the prices offered by the processors for summer varieties, Snead is cautiously optimistic about the price lists to be announced in September for the more popular apples, the winesaps, golden and red delicious and the like. “We should get a decent price for red delicious
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