ROCHESTER, N.Y. – This year's expected record-breaking apple crop has left many New York growers with fruit still on the trees and not enough storage space after the harvest.
Jim Allen, president of the New York Apple Association, tells the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester (http://on.rocne.ws/1acyZMg ) that the bountiful 2013 growing season left many growers without enough workers to harvest the apples, not enough bins to place them in and not enough cold-storage capacity.
Last summer, Allen estimated the state's apple crop would be a record-setting 32 million bushels, nearly double of last year's harvest. He says the total is expected to top 34 million bushels when all the figures are final.
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