I live in California. When I first discovered Fuji’s, almost 20 years ago, the quality was fantastic just as the red delicious was when I was a child back in the 60’s. First they ruined the Red Delicious making it for the most part inedible. It seems agribusiness has come close to ruining the Fuji as well. Why has the quality deteriorated so in recent years?

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