One of Todd Fryhover’s first tasks as president of the Washington Apple Commission is to figure out how to export a larger percentage of the crop. The 2008 crop is estimated at 113 million packed boxes, a jump of 14 percent from last year, but the domestic market has been stable, taking 70 to 75 million boxes of Washington apples. “If you use that as your base, you’re going to have to move more fruit internationally,” Fryhover said. “Can we expand our export markets? Absolutely, if the economic factors or politics and things we can’t control don’t kill us. There’s […]