The standard advice for surviving the apple industry’s present downturn is to use block-level accounting to understand which orchards are paying their bills and which are bleeding. Now, new ...
“Changing climate conditions over multiple parts of the growth cycle pose potentially compounding threats to the production and ... complex is the fact that apple trees are perennials ...
Buono said such efforts can mitigate the impact of unusual weather like a May 18, 2023 frost that damaged trees across New York state and cut apple production by 20%. “Growers’ jobs are ...