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crop partly because an early frost thinned it out, but he’s still in better shape than the wholesalers. The processors, he says, are using “complicated pay scales” this year and “it’s difficult to dispose of drought apples."
Recent market reports show that a good share of the juice crop will be supplied this year due to the normal sizing and sorting process, but that the price trend is downwards. Sharp added.
Meanwhile, at Sam Snead’s stand on Route 211, cashiers say the golden and red apples were not affected much by the drought and are well sized, but the late crops such as staymans, yorks and winesaps are all about half the usual size.
Although it takes nearly twice as many late apples to fill a bushel, the per bushel price on all varieties is about the same as last year — $6.50 per bushel. Snead, who presses his own cider, has a ready market for his own juice apples. His eider gets $2.50 per gallon, $1.75 for x/z gallon.
Ben Lacy III of Front Royal has found another way of marketing juice apples. Lacy started the Alpenglow carbonated cider at the Linden Beverage Company three years ago. The beverage which is bottled to resemble fine champagne has become popular in several states along the East Coast — from Massachusetts ,to the Carolinas. Lacy’s 700 acre orchard supplies apples for the entire operation. The new company sold 12,000 bottles of the sparkling cider in the last six months of 1981, in 1982 they produced 15,000 bottles and the expectation for 1983 was 25,000.
H.B. Wood in Woodville doesn’t have a bottling company. He sends some of his crop to the co-op for storage and most of it to the processor where it is sorted and paid according to two schedules.
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