I'm here on behalf of NYAG to talk about our partnership with Cornell, as well as to introduce two great new apple brands and New York's first homegrown apple club.I'm sure many of you were in Boston last year and recall Dr. Susan Brown's talk about the development of these apples. I plan to pick up where she left off.I remember where I was when I first learned about the club apple concept.I was here, at IFTA in Kelowna in 2002. Through a chance meeting I struck up a conversation with Alan White from New Zealand. He told me about a great new apple they had called Jazz. But the important thing I learned was that he was in charge of selecting the growers for it, and it would not be available in New York. I was fascinated by the idea of an apple I wouldn't be allowed to grow. It implied the possibility for a medium-acreage grower like me to have access to a limited variety. I had a feeling I was seeing the future of the industry, and wanted to know how my operation could be a part of it.
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