The Future From The Ground Up

摘要

AS THE U.S. tree fruit industries and specialty crops in general enjoy some welcome and much-needed prosperity, it is exciting to see a more confident and aggressive approach to the future, including significant recapitalization and investment in newplantings. Even more exciting is the strategic approach many growers are now taking to this process. Too often in the past, many would simply go after a generic scion sport, on whatever rootstock might be available, waiting until the last minute in spring (or even early summer) to throw the trees in the ground, and hope everything else worked out. Now, it is more common to actually pay attention to the venerable dictum: "Plan before you plant."