Trent Ball Things are looking up for Washington’s Concord grape growers, though there may be fewer of them now. Five years ago, Washington growers had about 22,000 acres planted in Concords, but that has fallen to 17,500 acres today — the lowest since the 1970s, said Trent Ball, the agriculture program chair at Yakima Valley College and instructor in the Vineyard and Winery Technology Program. The shrinking supply is finally driving the price up so that growers received $165 per ton last year. That’s up from $120 in both 2017 and 2016 and $110 in 2015 and 2014. “It’s helping […]