The Michigan Processing Apple Growers marketing committee has negotiated minimum apple prices with six apple processors.
The prices are $12.50 a hundredweight for hard varieties 2 ½ inches and up, and $10 for soft varieties of that size. No price was negotiated for juice or undersize apples.
Six processors are in agreement with the prices, according to Dawn Drake, manager of the Processing Apple Growers. Those processors are Coloma Frozen Foods, Gerber Products, Knouse Foods, Peterson Farms, Pinnacle Foods, and Smeltzer Orchard Co.
Burnette Foods, Cherry Growers, Inc., Indian Summer, and Materne USA opted out of the negotiations.
