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Idaho Apple Commission reports smaller crops, cites frost, hail and labor pressures
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Candy Fitch told legislators Idaho apple production has dropped from roughly 5 million bushels historically to about 1.5 million for a full crop today; the commission cited late frost, a hailstorm and expensive H-2A labor as pressures.
Candy Fitch, executive director for the Idaho Apple Commission, told the committee that Idaho’s apple industry has seen a long-term reduction in production and faces weather and labor pressures.
Fitch said the commission’s historical assessments once reflected nearly 5 million bushels; with a full crop today the state produces about 1.5 million bushels. She described 2024’s growing season as marked by a late May frost that reduced crop size on early varieties and a midsummer wind and hail microburst that damaged older trees and…
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