Out with old varieties

摘要

While the 2019 apple crop will be fairly average in size, grocer says consumers have too many choices.The United States will produce 247.7 million bushels of apples in 2019.That's according to the U.S. Apple Association, which announced its estimate Aug. 23, during its annual Apple Crop Outlook & Marketing Conference in Chicago. The USApple estimate was smaller than the USDA estimate of 253.1 million bushels announced on Aug. 12 (both USDA and USApple count bushels as 42-pound units). If USApple's estimate holds, 2019 will be an average-sized crop, 1 percent larger than 2018 but 1 percent smaller than the five-year average.