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BLACKSBURG - Those consumers who keep the doctor away by eating an apple a day won’t find their daily medication costing more even though national production is down.
Forecasters at the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted a 1990 national crop of 231 million bushels, a decline of six million bushels from 1989. But despite the decline, there should not be any price rise for “eating apples.”
Ross E. Byers, Cooperative Extension horticulturist at Virginia Tech’s Winchester Agricultural Experiment Station, said Virginia’s crop is expected to be 40 percent less than 1989 apple figures. “A string of freezes last spring after some unusually warm weather really hurt the Virginia growers,” Mr. Byers said.
Clayton Griffin, director of the
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