Forecast: US apple crop holds steady in 2016
The U.S. Apple Association has estimated the size of the 2016 U.S. apple crop: 245.9 million bushels. If it holds, the crop will be 3 percent bigger than last year’s and 3 percent bigger than the five-year average.
The estimate was announced Aug. 26 at the Apple Crop Outlook & Marketing Conference in Chicago. Two weeks before that, USDA estimated the 2016 crop at 248 million bushels.