Table 4 Table A1. Market grade of apples from three production systems. Prior to 1998 all fruit was sold for processing. Differences between values in a year followed by different letters are significant at the 0.05 level (LSD).
Grade | Year | Organic | Conventional | Integrated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Washington Extra Fancy (%) | 1998 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
1999 | 73.24 a | 70.06 a | 74.18 a | |
Washington Fancy (%) | 1998 | 26.62 a | 33.65 a | 28.97 a |
1999 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
Processed (%) | 1998 | 73.38 a | 66.35 a | 71.03 a |
1999 | 26.76 a | 29.94 a | 25.82 a |
