Apples are one of the most valuable fruit crops in the United States. The 2021 apple crop totaled just over 10.5 billion pounds, down 5 million pounds from 2019.
The United States has 5,000 plus apple producers who grow, on average, 240 million bushels of apples each year. These producers grow the apples on an approximated 322 thousand acres of land.
The utilized apple crop was just over 11 billion pounds. (NASS 2021)
32 states in the United States raise apples commercially. The top ten apple producing states are Washington, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, Virginia, North Carolina, Oregon, Ohio and Idaho (U.S. Apple Association, 2021).
In this Episode we have a conversation with Kait Thornton a Washington Farm Girl, "The Apple Girl", about all the processes to produce apples from Growing , Planting , And Harvesting.