... country, including the Southeast and the Midwest, said Jim Cranney, vice president of the McLean, Va.-based U.S. Apple Association, an industry trade group. At least some of the movement this winter is the result of a stronger-than-anticipated ...

... to major losses in the nation's apple industry, which mounted to $700 million in 2001, according to the U.S. Apple Association. The industry has recovered somewhat since then, in part because reduced harvests have buoyed prices. Who ...

... persons about the potential problem, even though we believe the risk is pretty low,'' said Julia Daly of the U.S. Apple Association. Rick Kimes of Kimes Cider Mill in Bendersville, Pa., said he had no intention of adding warning labels ...