There’s growing momentum behind a national replant program for orchards and vineyards in Canada. Modeled on the successful replant program that has operated in British Columbia since 1991, the new national initiative would split the cost of replanting orchards and vineyards equally between growers, participating provinces, and Canada’s federal government. Nova Scotia made the first move in November 2005 with a Can.$1.2 million program that could see up to 600 of Nova Scotia’s nearly 6,000 acres of orchards replanted over the next five years. (A Canadian dollar is worth about U.S. 85 cents.) “We are hoping that if the national […]