Re: Apple-Crop: Variety restrictions in European Union?

2010-01-24 Thread Daniel Cooley
Blame the mass market. Seems stuff like Gala and Braeburn are more popular with the average Brit these days. Nobody's restricting production, but growers are simply responding to retailer demands.

Re: Apple-Crop: Variety restrictions in European Union?

2010-01-23 Thread Arthur Kelly
Sounds like McIntosh. Art Kelly Kelly Orchards Acton, ME, USA On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Matthias Schmoldt matthias.schmo...@gmx.net wrote: NO WAY. This is not true. It is more a fact, that Cox Orange is not longer any more a variety, which earns money for the grower. The consumer

Re: Apple-Crop: Variety restrictions in European Union?

2010-01-22 Thread Jose Manuel Pereira Cardoso
Hi everyone David as far as I Know the European Union have no restritions on apple varities to grow in orchards. In Portugal we are growing more apple that consumers buy in markets eg. Golden group, Starking, Fuji, Galas, jonagold, Jonagored, Granny smith, reinnette grise du canada, ect. There a