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.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178114/Crunch-time-Coxs-apples-Galas-Braeburns-bite-sales.html#

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/9740068/Theres_one_thing_I_AM_xenophobic_about_apples/


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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 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


 

 Obsthof Schmoldt -- Matthias Schmoldt -- Stellenfleth 40 -- 21732
 Krummendeich -- Germany -- Tel. 0049-4779-377 -- FAX 0049-4779-921086 --
 Mobile 0049-1707538323 - -- i...@obsthof-schmoldt.de --
 www.obsthof-schmoldt.de

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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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Apple-Crop: Variety restrictions in European Union?

2010-01-22 Thread David Kollas


	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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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 preference
for new varieties as Pink Lady.

best regards



2010/1/22 David Kollas kol...@sbcglobal.net


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

2010-01-22 Thread Matthias Schmoldt
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
 


Obsthof Schmoldt -- Matthias Schmoldt -- Stellenfleth 40 -- 21732
Krummendeich -- Germany -- Tel. 0049-4779-377 -- FAX 0049-4779-921086 --
Mobile 0049-1707538323 - -- i...@obsthof-schmoldt.de --
www.obsthof-schmoldt.de 

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Von: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net [mailto:apple-c...@virtualorchard.net] Im
Auftrag von David Kollas
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 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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