NEW YORK APPLE GROWERS, LLC OBTAINS LICENSE TO NEW APPLE VARIETIES
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
NYAG has surveyed all New York growers regarding their interest in joining NYAG. We have positive responses from 170 growers including 70 farm markets. These growers have expressed a desire to plant about 1,000 acres of the NY 1 and NY 2 cultivars. Currently, only New York growers are eligible to join NYAG and to plant, grow and market the licensed varieties. All New York growers contribute to a research fund which helps fund the breeding program at Cornell.
NYAG will be contracting with grower members to manage the distribution of the acreage and ultimately the packing and marketing of the fruit. We will be sublicensing nurseries, packing houses and marketers in order to offer excellent returns to growers for the sale of this premium fruit. Revenues derived from marketing will be shared with Cornell University so that future variety selections suited to our climate will continue to be produced by our own local breeding program at the New York State Agriculture Experiment Station in Geneva .
New York State has now joined the trend toward “managed varieties”, an effort to provide consumers with exciting new varieties and to continue to support the breeding programs that provides these varieties. Organizations like NYAG are the new vehicle which transfers this technology from the research and patent stage to the commercial application stage and brings new products to the public in an expedited fashion. Breeding, propagation and commercialization of new apple varieties has always been a protracted process and we are pleased to be part of this new expedited way of bring new varieties to the public faster.
NYAG LLC, better know as NEW YORK APPLE GROWERS is pleased to announce that we have now completed negotiations with Cornell University to obtain the exclusive license to two new apple varieties.
These two exciting varieties, currently known as NY 1 and NY 2, have been developed by the Cornell Apple Breeding program led by Dr. Susan Brown. Both red apples possess the excellent flavor and crispness that today’s consumer’s demand.
