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Rising apple prices to hit cider makers

Cider makers could be paying up to $1,000 a tonne for apples by the end of the year.

A fruit shortage has been created in some regions by severe weather events across Australia, ABC News reports.

John Power, general manager of the Batlow Fruit Co-Operative in south-west NSW, said juice fruit will be in high demand.

"Instead of a bigger crop being picked and going into cool store and the juice fruit is separated at packing, which happens right throughout the year, this year a large percentage of the fruit that was going to juice went straight off the tree,” Power said. "The price was low to start with, but now the price is going up very quickly.”

"I suspect there is going to be a shortage of juice fruit as we come to the end of the year."

Mr Power says that earlier this year growers would have been lucky to get $200 a tonne for juice grade apples.

 

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