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Bad Apple Crops Drives Cider Prices Up

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Earlier this month FOX44 told you expect to pay more for apple cider this fall, but some people are surprised to see a gallon cost $8-dollars!

The sweet treat doesn't cost that much at Adams' Apple Orchard in Williston, Vermont, but at $6-dollars a gallon, the orchard is charging its highest amount ever.

An early spring and frost killed much of the nation's crops.

Local apple growers say these high prices don't shock them.

"It's surprising to me that it's there but based on the market that I know with the apple crop as it stand I'm not surprised," said Adams' Apple Orchard owner John Adams.

Adams says a reason why some cider cost more is companies that depend on buying their apples, instead of being able to pick them from their own orchards, which means they pay a lot more to produce it.

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