Auvil Fruit Company at Vantage, Washington, has developed an optimized orchard system that has a high-volume canopy with the potential to absorb a lot of light and generate high production of target fruit, says WSU horticulturist Dr. Don Elfving. The plan Light is the key factor in producing target fruit, says Dr. Don Elfving, horticulturist with ­Washington State University in Wenatchee. “When everything else has been fixed, light management is going to be the determining ­factor—and perhaps the limiting factor—as to whether you can produce a sufficient crop of target fruit,” he told growers at a recent Fruit School on […]