USApple Association
Formation1946 (1946)[1]
Typenonprofit organization, trade association
PurposePromoting apple producers and distributers.
HeadquartersFalls Church, Virginia, U.S.
Region
United States
President and CEO
Jim Bair[2]
Websiteusapple.org

US Apple Association is a Virginia-based nonprofit membership association for growers, marketers, equipment producers, and allied organizations dealing with apples, within forty states of the United States of America. It advocates on behalf of 7,500 apple growers and 400 companies in the apple business.[3][4][5] Their services include but are not limited to, lobbying for the industry's interests at all the branches of the federal government and the public and providing educational information, and newsletters for the growers. The association also strives to provide all involved in the U.S. apple industry the means to profitably produce and market apples and apple products.[6][7]

The association's website supplies information for the public on all different apple cultivars grown in the United States. Currently, there are close to 100 U.S. cultivars grown commercially, but about 90% of the production consists of the 15 most popular cultivars.[8]

References

  1. "U S Apple Association - GuideStar Profile".
  2. "Jim Bair, US Apple Association: Profile and Biography". www.bloomberg.com.
  3. "US APPLE ASSOCIATION Falls Church VA, 22043 - Cortera Company Profile".
  4. "U.S. Apple Association".
  5. Bomey, Nathan. "Gala apple passes Red Delicious as America's favorite". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  6. "Home". USApple.
  7. "Jim Bair, USApple Association: Profile and Biography - Bloomberg Markets". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
  8. Apple Varieties of the USApple Association


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