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Murph,
This season we harvested about 80 bushels of Honeycrisp
and sold them for $19.95 per peck (about $2/lb.) They lasted 2 days!
We should have charged more, but I can't justify the price for the very reason
you point out. I'll take a good Royal Empire any day over a Honeycrisp,
but the Gen X crowd in the Chicago area will pay over $3.00/gal for gas to drive
2 hours in their SUV, Volvo, Audi, Lexus, etc... to Royal Oak Farm for the
Honeycrisp! What was it P.T. Barnum said....There's one born every
minute!!
And....yes, we are planting 500 more Honeycrisp trees
next spring to give us over 2,000 total. We are also adding about 400 of
the new Snow Sweet from UMinn. You can check it out at http://www.apples.umn.edu/nurseries/snowsweet.html
We're getting them from Stark Bros. I'll let you know how they do on
B9.
Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com http://www.revivalhymn.com
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