The National Agricultural Statistics Service is surveying more than 4,000 tree fruit and grape growers in Washington State to compile a new inventory of acreage by variety. The state’s last tree fruit survey, done in 2000, showed that Washington had 256,000 acres of tree fruits, of which 192,000 were apples and 82,000 acres were Red Delicious. There were 29,000 acres of cherries, of which 18,800 were Bing. It’s likely that significant changes have taken place since then in terms of acreage and varieties. In the new survey, which the National Agricultural Statistics Service began to send out in April, growers […]