As the Washington State apple crop shifts in terms of varieties and volumes, the Washington Apple Commission must match its export efforts to what is happening in the industry, says Todd Fryhover, commission president. The big upsurge in Honeycrisp, which is selling at high prices on the domestic market, will likely push other varieties from the domestic to the export market, just as increasing volumes of Gala have eaten into the consumption of Golden Delicious domestically, resulting in a need to promote Goldens overseas. Mexico, the only significant export market for Golden Delicious, took 3.2 million boxes of that variety […]
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