There might be some hidden information not published in the article in post 1.
Many food products come from China, and in China, as in India, there have been some very wet summers, as in England and Wales. It is thought to be due to climatic change.
So what we might be seeing, is that China has less apples to sell to the West, after many of our own orchards have already been mowed down and outsourced to China.
What goes round comes round!
