Peach Economics and Acreage Survey

Hello All,

 

I hope that your summer has been going well thus far!  I think that we have finally gotten into the pattern of the afternoon thunderstorms, which will help our drought situation. 

 

Well, I am writing with a request for some data to get a better idea of the size of the peach industry in Florida.  Dr. Kim Morgan and I received some funding from the FDACS Specialty Crop Block Grant program to conduct a study on orchard establishment and production costs, and this is the first step to finding out about the size of the industry. 

 

If you have a peach orchard (any size), or are thinking of putting one in, please fill out the online survey at: http://survey.morganstrategies.com/.  All responses will be held confidential. 

 

We will not only use this information for our publication, which will end up as a budget of yearly costs, but also for making our case to USDA-RMA to expand the current area for crop insurance. 

 

Thank you for your time, and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to e-mail or call myself or Dr. Kim Morgan (http://www.agecon.msstate.edu/people/facultydetail.php?faculty=morgan). 

 

Take care!

Mercy

 

Mercy Olmstead, PhD

Stone Fruit Extension Specialist

University of Florida-IFAS

2135 Fifield Hall

Gainesville, FL  32611-0690

352-273-4772

mercy1@ufl.edu

http://hos.ufl.edu/stonefruit