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INTENSIVE plantings with semi-dwarf trees is the direction of the apple industry of Virginia, says Fred R. Dreiling, associate professor of horticulture and Extension fruit specialist at Virginia Tech.
The acreage of apple orchards in Virginia is decreasing while tree numbers are on. the increase. The cost-price squeeze and labor shortage will be met by more mechanization and greater efficiency in intensive plantings.
Whereas trees several decades ago were planted at 35-40 trees per acre they are now being planted in many orchards at 140-180 trees per acre.
This movement to the “orchard of the future” is further emphasized in the last Virginia apple tree survey, said Dreiling. Some 35 per cent of all apple trees and 69 per cent of the young trees are now of the semi-dwarf type.
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