Quebec annually produces around 6 million bushels of apples on average, but this year cooler weather means the apples are smaller than usual. The industry is expecting a 10 per cent drop in production.
Quinn Farm co-owner Phil Quinn: "We've got an equivalent of a one-month delay on the growing season. A lot of us have been hailed out this past summer. On the 27th of June, we had a really bad hail event here in the farm come through. It damaged around 90 per cent of our fruit. They'll have some kind of little nick on them."
Though the look and taste remain of high-quality this year, the imperfection caused by hail storms and other weather events means the apples are left imperfect to the eye.
Quinn feels his family-run business will take a financial hit this year, but he knows his losses won't be as bad as some, as the business is 100 per cent retail.
"We do not wholesale anything," he said. "If we were to wholesale our production this year, we'd be getting 10 cents on the dollar. It wouldn't even be worth picking them."
Source: montreal.ctvnews.ca
