THE ECONOMICS OF REPLANTING APPLE ORCHARDS IN WASHINGTON STATE

A number of economic studies examined the costs to establish apple orchards in Washington State.
These reports covered the economic implications of different tree densities, fruit prices and yields.
Further they enumerated costs to correct the replant problem.

It is not economically possible to plant apple orchards with varieties of average market value without first fixing the replant problem.
This is because of low and delayed yields.
With high market value apples, and in a higher density orchard, fertilizer and pre-plant soil fumigation returned $525 (U.S.) over five years for each one dollar spent.
Failure to correct the replant problem in higher density orchards is potentially more costly due to higher initial orchard establishment costs.

III International Symposium on Replant Problems

A. Brooke Peterson, H. Hinman

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1994.363.3