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.
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Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Januar 2010 20:41
An: Apple-Crop
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
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
Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Januar 2010 20:41
An: Apple-Crop
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
