Thank you to Matthias in Germany and Jose Manuel in Portugal. As
there were no
replies confirming European Union regulation of varieties grown, I
am ready to notify
my customer that his friend must have been misinformed about why his
favorite apple
could not be found in English markets.
I might suggest that his friend visit the orchard of Apple Crop's
occasional English
contributor, Con Traas, but I don't know for sure that Con grows Cox
either.
David Kollas
On Jan 23, 2010, at 2:29 AM, Matthias Schmoldt 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 asks for it less and less ( in Germany...)and
therefore we
cannot achieve good prices for Cox any more.
The second reason against the growing of Cox is, that all of the
retailers
ask for shelf life, firmness and ruggedness of the fruit, and Cox
is not
performing well in these characteristics.
Matthias Schmoldt
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Betreff: Apple-Crop: Variety restrictions in European Union?
A customer at our farm retail store today related that a recent
visitor from England
told him that he could no longer buy his favorite apple variety in
England, Cox Orange
Pippin. It was his understanding, he said, that commercial growers
in England were
restricted to growing a certain few varieties. He thought this was a
restriction related
to England's membership in the European Union. I would be quite
surprised to learn
that this is true, but have been unsuccessful with my Google search
so far. Surely some
Apple Crop readers can clear the confusion?
David Kollas
Kollas Orchard
Tolland, CT, USA
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