British Columbia apple growers are nervous about Washington State’s tremendous production capacity. Washington’s apple crop is down slightly this season at an estimated 95 million boxes, but B.C. growers fear that next year could well bring another 100-million-box-plus crop from their neighbors to the south. “Can our industry survive if nothing is done to curtail that massive production juggernaut that’s there?” asks Joe Sardinha, president of the B.C. Fruit Growers Association. Canadian fruit growers are preparing to file an antidumping complaint alleging that some Washington shippers exported fruit to Canada during the 2004-2005 season at below the cost of production-as […]