Teeple chairs USApple John Teeple of Teeple Farms, Inc., Wolcott, New York, chairs the U.S. Apple Association for 2009-2010. He succeeds Bruce Grim, Entiat, Washington. Teeple, a third-generation grower, grows more than 15 varieties of apples on his 400 acres of orchard in upstate New York. He’s a member of the Lake County Storage Cooperative and the Empire Fruit Growers Cooperative. Teeple, a former chair of the New York Apple Association, expects the number-one issue that USApple will be working on this year will be immigration. “We hope to get some form of the AgJOBS Bill from Congress this year,” […]