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The price of Cling peaches rose $5.50 per ton.

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California processors and the state Canning Peach Assn. agreed on a base price of $188.50 a ton for the 1985 crop. The terms include a premium-penalty schedule that will return to growers an additional $10 a ton for deliveries registering 7% or less of off-grade fruit. Cling peaches represent the state’s largest processing fruit crop.

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