Establishment and Production Costs for Peach Orchards in Florida:  Enterprise Budget and Profitability Analysis

Singerman, Ariel; Arouca, Marina Burani; Olmstead, Mercy

doi:10.32473/edis-fe1016-2017

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“…Peaches are commercially produced in 20 states of the United States [8]. California is the top peachproducing state, accounting for approximately 70% of the domestic production, followed by South Carolina, Georgia, and New Jersey [9]. The bearing acreage of peach trees in the United States has been gradually declining for the past two decades [8].…”

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“…Peaches have become a relevant specialty crop in Florida and a promising alternative that may help the profitability of growers of traditionally cultivated crops such as citrus. This emerging importance is evidenced in the increasing peach acreage in Florida, whereas the cultivated area at the national level has been decreasing during the last decade [8,9,14]. Currently, the industry is valued at more than USD 10 million annually and produces 3.3 million kg of fruit [14].…”

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Rootstocks for Commercial Peach Production in the Southeastern United States: Current Research, Challenges, and Opportunities

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The Southeastern United States is facing agriculture crises, such as the ongoing epidemic of citrus greening disease that has forced the region to begin looking into alternative crops. Some of these belong to the Rosaceae genus Prunus, which encompasses many economically important species such as peaches, almonds, cherries, plums, and more. Peach production in Florida has become a very promising alternative to citrus; however, there are different limitations and challenges that peach production faces in this region. Differing climates coupled with edaphic challenges such as salinity, alkalinity, and waterlogging have been the focus of much of the research into the viability of peach production in the region. Using the genetic diversity of the Prunus genus is crucial to the success of peach as an alternative crop, due to the nature of its propagation on rootstocks. The development of new rootstock cultivars has been—and continues to be—the most efficient way not only to deal with the variety of problems associated with the climate and soil mentioned above but also to mitigate the effects of pests and diseases. The vegetative propagation of stone fruit rootstocks also has distinct advantages that seed propagation cannot achieve, including tree performance uniformity and the multiplication of interspecific hybrids. Tools used to select the best-performing rootstocks for the area such as the root system architecture (RSA) analysis are fundamental to this development process to ensure that the rootstock cultivars with the traits needed for success in the region are selected. This narrative review lays out all the challenges facing southeastern peach production in detail, discussing the research into these challenges and highlighting the tools that are most crucial to the success of peach production in the region to create a resource for researchers, growers, and breeders to more easily access this information.

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Section: Economic Importance Of Peaches In the United Statesmentioning

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Rootstocks for Commercial Peach Production in the Southeastern United States: Current Research, Challenges, and Opportunities

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“…Biocrusts have also been recently described in agroecosystems (Peng and Bruns 2019a , Nevins et al 2021 ) and provide comparable rates of N-fixation with natural ecosystem biocrusts with estimates from 8.1 kg N ha −1 year −1 (citrus orchard) to 4.9 kg N ha −1 year −1 (vineyard) (Sorochkina et al 2022 ). The N requirements of perennial crops, such as citrus, that range from 22 to 336 kg N ha −1 year −1 in Florida's sandy soils (Husmann and Dearing 1913 , Singerman et al 2017 , Kadyampakeni and Morgan 2020 , Sorochkina et al 2022 ), underscore the great interest of many producers in capitalizing on the potential of naturally occurring N-fixation as a source of crop N.…”

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Nitrogen-fixing bacterial communities differ between perennial agroecosystem crops

Sorochkina,

Martens-Habbena,

Reardon

et al. 2024

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

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Biocrusts, common in natural ecosystems, are specific assemblages of microorganisms at or on the soil surface with associated microorganisms extending into the top centimeter of soil. Agroecosystem biocrusts have similar rates of nitrogen (N) fixation as those in natural ecosystems, but it is unclear how agricultural management influences their composition and function. This study examined the total bacterial and diazotrophic communities of biocrusts in a citrus orchard and a vineyard that shared similar climate and soil type but differed in management. To contrast climate and soil type, these biocrusts were also compared to those from an apple orchard. Unlike natural ecosystem biocrusts, these agroecosystem biocrusts were dominated by proteobacteria and had a lower abundance of cyanobacteria. All examined agroecosystem biocrust diazotroph communities were dominated by N-fixing cyanobacteria from the Nostocales order, similar to natural ecosystem cyanobacterial biocrusts. Lower irrigation and fertilizer in the vineyard compared to the citrus orchard could have contributed to biocrust microbial composition, whereas soil type and climate could have differentiated the apple orchard biocrust. Season did not influence bacterial and diazotrophic community composition of any these agroecosystem biocrusts. Overall, agricultural management and climatic and edaphic factors potentially influenced community composition and function of these biocrusts.

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“…Peach orchards may not generate revenue until 3 yr after orchard establishment (Singerman et al 2021). Given the capital investment, maintenance costs, and delay in revenue generation, it may take 7 or 8 yr of production for a peach orchard to break even or become profitable (Knudsen et al 2016).…”

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Peach tree response to low dosages of dicamba as repeated application or with various spray nozzles

Bertucci,

Butts,

Kouame

et al. 2023

Weed Technol

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Two low-dose dicamba exposure trials were conducted on container-grown peach trees in Fayetteville, AR. Peach trees were ‘July Prince’ scions grafted onto ‘Guardian’ rootstock and were transplanted into 19 L containers and received experimental dicamba treatments in each year. Container trials were initiated in 2020 and repeated on new trees in 2021. In the repeated application trial, dicamba was applied at 5.6 g ae ha-1 (1/100× field rate) in five sequences: an untreated control receiving no herbicide, one treatment receiving only initial application, and three treatments receiving initial application plus sequential applications at the same rate occurring 14 d, 28 d, 14 d + 28 d after initial treatment (DAT). A separate trial assessed peach tree responses to dicamba applied at 11.2 g ae ha-1 (1/50× field rate) using a selection of nozzles with differing droplet spectrum characteristics: Turbo TeeJet® Induction (TTI11002), Air Induction Turbo TeeJet® (AITTJ60-11002), AIXR TeeJet® (AIXR11002, air induction extended range), XR TeeJet® (XR11002, extended range flat fan), and XR TeeJet® (XR1100067, extended range flat fan). Peach tree height, tree cross sectional area (TCSA) and leaf chlorophyll content were not reduced in response to any sequence of dicamba application or nozzle selection. Repeated applications of dicamba at 1/100× rate did not increase peach injury after 28 DAT. By 84 DAT, no effect of nozzle type on peach tree injury was discernable, and all treatments caused below 4% injury. No dicamba or dicamba metabolites were observed in leaf samples collected at 14, 69, or 85 DAT from trees treated with XR1100067 nor in untreated controls. While peach tree injury was observed throughout the experiment, dicamba residues were only detected consistently in 2020 from leaf samples of trees treated with dicamba at 1/50× rate using TTI1102, AITTJ60-11002, AIXR11002, and XR11002 nozzles.

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Establishment and Production Costs for Peach Orchards in Florida: Enterprise Budget and Profitability Analysis

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Rootstocks for Commercial Peach Production in the Southeastern United States: Current Research, Challenges, and Opportunities

Rootstocks for Commercial Peach Production in the Southeastern United States: Current Research, Challenges, and Opportunities

Nitrogen-fixing bacterial communities differ between perennial agroecosystem crops

Peach tree response to low dosages of dicamba as repeated application or with various spray nozzles

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