Pulling peac

摘要

Orchard owners pulled out over 800 acres of peaches and nectarines in Washington's Yakima Valley this winter, after discovering widespread X disease infection in a crop that was already struggling to remain competitive with California producers.The lost acreage will cut Washington's expected soft fruit harvest from about 20,000 tons in recent years to just 10,000 tons, said B.J. Thurlby, president of the Washington State Fruit Commission. At that level, the commission can't really run an effective marketing program, he told the commission board in March.