Risks With few rewards

摘要

Kameron and Kerry Miller know their pear orchards need renovation to increase production and improve the efficiency of labor and pest control, but prices that have fallen below the cost of production make any sort of investment risky."Right now, we're just making enough to trade dollars. We're not making money," Kerry Miller said. In the Dryden, Washington, area, he is removing steep-slope blocks that he plans to replant slowly, a few acres at a time. "I'd be financially ahead to just knock it down and not replant with the way things are right now," he said.