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ing local growers with apples on the ground.
“The problem has been compounded because the processors also import foreign concentrate that they mix with water instead of buying the fresh product,” Snead said. “They don’t want juice apples, and they know they have us over a barrel.”
He said processors accepting any juice apples are paying a little over $1 a bushel. “There is no way we can even get out costs out of that,” he said.
Thomas Lee, Sr., of Lee Orchards on the Fodderstack Rd., said he estimated this year’s crop to be 60 percent of a full crop, but the apples have not been moving.
What happens to those unsold apples? “They lie where they fall and feed the rabbits, I guess,” said Lee.
Lee said the canning juice plants are not running now. “Last year, they were working two shifts at this time, and now they aren’t working any shifts,” he said.
He said the dry weather caused the smaller apples and their tendency to drop off the tree sooner.
“We needed rain at the beginning of September, but we didn’t get it so the apples all got ripe at one time,” Lee said. “Now everything has
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