I am writing this article after reading the Good Fruit Grower November edition which features apple marketing and “Coping without the commission.” The topic is certainly timely with the beginning of another apple marketing season. I have also just returned from a two-week trip to southeast Asia where I visited four countries with astonishing economic growth, transportation systems that appear to surpass those of the United States, and read of the amazing initial public offering of a major Chinese bank that generated $21 billion in the largest IPO ever. When you compare this to the total value of the 2005 […]