It's not that common in Europe. In Italy, which has some of the biggest apple orchards, the cheap variety is the Golden Delicious or the Royal Gala. By the way

It's not that common in Europe. In Italy, which has some of the biggest apple orchards, the cheap variety is the Golden Delicious or the Royal Gala. By the way, the mechanics of the organization behind those orchards are insane. It's an organization of thousands of farmers from the same valley (val di Non), with agronomists that decide when to harvest depending on the altitude and the variety. Apples brought a lot of wealth and infrastructure, since the valley roads had to be updated for the tricks. The organization even bought an old mine to have a 10 km tunnel at constant temperature in which to store apples.