A Sampling of Consumer Retail Apple Apple Prices

Apple Price in 2023: Typical Pick Your Own and Already Harvested Apple prices!

Pick your own:

The prices for pick your own apples vary ENORMOUSLY throughout North America. It tends to be highest closer to urban areas, and especially in states that have higher taxes and costs overall, like the northeast and west coast. Here are a few local prices as reported.

GA - 2022 north Georgia

Average apple orchard PYO prices:$10 per half-peck of apples (that's 5 to 7 lbs)

NC - 2022 Average PYO prices at North Carolina orchards are

$40/bushel,
$20 per half bushel,
$14/per peck

PA - 2022 -

Masonic Village Farm Market - Elizabethtown, PA 1
2020 prices were PYO Apple Price: $1.00 per pound, PYO Pumpkin Price: $.65 per pound, PYO Peach Price: $1.25 per pound,
Flinchbaugh's Orchard
small $9 each | 7-8lb bag
large $15 each | 12-15lb bag

Already Picked:

2022: Apple prices at farm markets range from $20 to $60 per bushel.

It varies considerably by variety. More popular varieties like Honeycrisp are at the high end, red delicious is at the low end.

The chart at right or above from the USDA dates to 2018, but it gives a good idea of how the apple prices vary by variety.

A "40 lb box" means bushel.

The 2022 median price is most likely around $35 per bushel (42 lbs) in most areas of the U.S.

Weights and Approximate Typical Processed Yields of Apples

If you have this much fresh apples:	You should get this much...
If you have this much fresh apples:	Commonly made products	Canned or frozen (quarts)	Canned or frozen (pints)
1 bushel (42-48 lbs) (85 to 95 apples)	1 bushel = 12 to 15 qt. canned applesauce (no sugar added), 14 - 18 with sugar 1 bushel = 10 to 12 qt. juice	12 - 16 quarts	28 - 36 pints
3 lbs.	1 quart applesauce	1 quart	2 pints
8 medium apples = 2.25 lbs	1 nine-inch apple pie or 3 cups of applesauce
1 peck = 10 to 14 lbs	1 peck makes = 3 or 4.5 qts. canned applesauce (no sugar added), 3.3 to 5.5 with sugar 1 peck makes 2.5 to 3.5 qt. juice	3 or 4.5 qts. canned applesauce
1/2 peck = 5 to 7 lbs	Eat them fresh. Too few to make anything