DATA ON THE TOTAL PRODUCTION OF APRICOTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE THREE PRINCIPAL PRODUCING STATES, CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON AND UTAH

Total production of apricots 1954–64 in tons:

Year	Utah	Washington	California	U.S.
1954	8.600	11.300	140.000	159.900
1954	7.400	21.000	253.000	281.400
1956	2.400	7.700	186.000	196.100
1957	11.000	13.500	167.000	191.500
1958	4.800	14.500	90.000	109.300
1959	7.100	13.300	210.000	230.400
1960	2.900	10.200	230.000	243.100
1961	2.800	8.500	180.000	191.300
1962	2.100	10.100	154.000	166.200
1963	1.700	8.600	190.000	200.3000
1964	7.000	9.200	208.000	224.200

Other far western states including Oregon, Idaho and Colorado produce some apricots commercially, but not enough to be recorded by the Crop Reporting Service.
All of these states reported to the writer that the apricot industry was declining there.

The great fluctuation in apricot production in Utah, Washington and California can easily be seen in the table of yield data.
This is due largely to unfavourable weather conditions in some years.
Recently, scarcity of farm labor, has resulted in part of the crop not being harvested.

California dominates apricot production in the United

III International Symposium on Apricots and Apricot Culture

S. Johnston

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1969.12.11