USApple Association

USApple 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 to provide 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]

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

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]

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