greater TA than ORG and CON apples at harvest in 2003 (Table 6). In the 2002 storage trials,
ORG apples had the most TA (Fig. 1B). In 2003. an interaction between farm management
x shelf-life treatments revealed that CON and INT apples had higher TA after the 7-d shelf
life than ORG apples, and that TA declined in fruit from all three farm systems during the
shelf-life interval (Peck, 2004).
At harvest in 2002, INT apples had the highest SSC to TA ratio, but in 2003, CON apples
were consistently higher than INT apples, with ORG apples being intermediate (Table 6). During the storage trials in 2002, CON and INT apples had higher SSC to TA ratios than
ORG apples, whereas ORG and CON apples had higher SSC to TA ratios than INT apples
in storage in 2003 (Fig. 1C). Despite the high SSC to TA ratio for CON apples in both years,
no clear pattern of differences emerged for ORG or INT apples.