Apple Holdings Report

Apple Holdings Report. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

Storage holdings for apples in the U.S. are slightly higher than they were last year, according to a new storage survey released by the U.S. Apple Association, the national trade association for the apple industry. Lacy Gray has more.

GRAY: The first USApple storage survey of the 2012 U.S. apple crop reports the total number of apples in storage on November 1 at 146 million bushels, which ahead of 2011’s 144 million. Fresh market apple holdings totaled 108.6 million bushels, up from 105.4 million in 2011 and a 1 percent increase over the five-year average. The inventory of apples held for processing stood at 37.8 million bushels, below the 42 million recorded last year and 10 percent off the five-year average. The U.S. apple industry uses storage to provide apples to consumers throughout the year and not only during the harvest season. The only source of U.S. apple storage holding numbers, USApple publishes this monthly storage survey from November through June to aid in market transparency and to provide accurate inventory information to aid in marketing and sales efforts.

Thanks Lacy. Complete results of the storage survey, including breakdowns for apple varietals and specific apple growing regions, are published in the November 2012 edition of USApple’s Market News.

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.