date:Sep 11, 2012
Brand-owners including Premier Foods which owns Mr Kipling have been warned the Bramley harvest, which got underway in England last week, threatens to be around half last years crop.
Phil Acock, md of Fourayes Farm in Kent, warned: The supermarkets are relaxing the size parameters for Bramley, so we will be competing for fruit on every level. We are expecting it to be in the region of double last years price.
Fourayes is the single biggest Bramley apple buyer in the UK, processing 1011,000t