High yields or high prices alone are not enough to ensure that a Gala apple grower will see a profit, two Washington State University ­agricultural economists report. Drs. Karina Gallardo and Mykel Taylor recently published a WSU extension fact sheet estimating the costs of establishing and producing Gala apples in Washington. It shows that in years when only price or production is high, the grower will not necessarily make a profit. Both yield and price must be relatively high. For example, Figure 1 shows that a Gala orchard producing 35 bins per acre will likely only be profitable if the […]