After last harvest, Blair Losvar pulled out all his remaining Red and Golden Delicious trees. In the past decade, he’s transformed his family’s 200-acre orchard to better position himself in the changing tree fruit industry, and he expects more changes to come. In 1994, after working as a field horticulturist for 14 years—first with the cooperative Chief Wenatchee, and then with Stemilt Growers, Wenatchee, Washington—Losvar returned to the family orchard at Loomis, near Washington’s border with Canada. His motivation was partly to allow his parents, Al and Isabelle Losvar, more opportunity to do things other than farm while they were […]