In a message dated 10/19/2004 10:30:40 AM US Eastern Standard Time, baylands@cros.net writes:
Why don't we outsource all of our fruit orchards to China and India? I'm sure they with their cheap labor can produce fruit cheaper than we do.
This is already going on. China is shipping apples into the US at costs way below what our orchards can produce them for. Wholesale marketing orchards are in trouble. They were getting ready to ship cider concentrate. Ed Fackler can enlighten & update us, ... Ed?