The Story Of Honeycrisp Is One Of Challenges And Success:Everything's different in this brave new world of 150 million 40-pound boxes of apples

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WHAT'S DIFFERENT Everything's different." That's what Mike Taylorhad to say about the Washington apple industry recently. Taylor, vice-president of sales and marketing for Stemilt Growers of Wenatchee, WA, was commenting about the current situation and the state's monumental 2014-15 apple crop.With around 150 million 40-pound boxes harvested for the fresh market, Washington producers obliterated theirprevious mark of 129 million boxes in 2012-13. Other apple producing states had very good years as well, so the 2014-15 season crop comes in as the country's third largest ever.