“A lot of our business is sharing knowledge,” says Ken Ballard of Northwest Farm Credit Services in Yakima, Washington. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower) Any grower can walk through an orchard, pointing out all his or her decisions to make good fruit. But can he tell you the costs? The profit? The plan to stay profitable? If he can’t, chances are that grower won’t be around long. Modern farming is a complex undertaking, an enterprise requiring large sums of money invested in the expectation of profit. As a business owner, a grower must know capital costs, risk management, labor management, strategic […]