Better Quality, Lower Volume In Some New York Producers’ Apple Crop

MEDINA — State and local farmers are predicting that this year’s apple crop won’t be as plentiful or early as last year, but that it will be extra sweet.

“We should have almost a vintage year,” said Darrel Oakes of LynOaken Farms in Lyndonville.

He explained that the moisture and high temperatures experienced this year will increase the sugar content in the apples.

Oakes also said this year’s harvest should be close to schedule. “I think it’s what we’d call a more normal year,” he said. “Last year we had an early spring.”

The warm temperatures in early 2010 caused last year’s crop to be about two weeks early.

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