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Re: Alleged dangers of organic food fertilized with manure (continued)
kstoner@caes.state.ct.us wrote:
>Hello again:
>
>One additional question. The article also suggested that if apple growers could
> still use Alar, there would be less contamination of the apple juice or cider,
>because the apples would stay on the trees longer. My impression is that
>dropped apples were used in apple cider, even during the Alar era, although I
>know very little about apples and cider. Is that true?
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Kim Stoner
>CT Agricultural Experiment Station
>P.O. Box 1106
>New Haven, CT 06504
>(203) 789-7246
Yes Kim,
Drops have always been used for cider until about Thanksgiving time,
or so, when they begin to break down. Drops actually make better cider
than hand-picked fruit at this time of the year because it is riper
This has certainly been the case with growers who press their own
cider.
I wouldn't doubt it it the increased number of drops now, as opposed
to the Alar era, has raised the percentage of drop fruit sent to the
non- grower cider mills.
I think another factor in the equation is price. In a year where there
are lots of apples on the market, the price for drops is so low that
growers who don't press their own cider just leave them on the ground.
It just doesn't pay to pick them up.
I have heard this year that there was a perception that the supply of
juice apples was going to be tight. Prices were probably good, and
some cider mill operators probably bought more drops early rather than
wait and get caught short later.
Regards,
Jonathan Bishop
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Jonathan Bishop Bishop's Orchards
B.W. Bishop & Sons, Inc. Growers of Fine Fruit
Guilford, Connecticut since 1871
E-Mail:j_bishop@ix.netcom.com
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