date:Dec 03, 2013
en growers and packers set an opening price of $16 a bushel for bagged apples and $20 for tray apples.
At the beginning of the season it was working fine, Levasseur said, but now that Washington has moved in aggressively, the committee will have to meet again.
If the price goes down, nobody will be happy, she said, because it costs more to put apples into controlled atmosphere.
She said growers who earn a front page or back page ads to promote Quebec apples in supermarket fliers receive a $2