The marketing outlook for organic tree fruit is healthy, but organic marketer Matt Miles cautions conventional growers against making the switch to organic just for the money. Miles, who is with L&M Companies, Inc., of Selah, Washington, said his company expects to handle more organic fruit in the future, but it looks for good growers who embrace sustainable production practices, not growers who are looking for organic premiums to get them out of trouble. “You can’t use organic as a method to maintain old varieties that should have been replanted or top-worked years ago,” he said. In the 1990s, there […]