Tree Fruit Trade - An Agricultural Economist Reviews Fifty Years of Washington State s

Filled with personal anecdotes as well as expert observation, investigation, and analysis, longtime agricultural economist Desmond O'Rourke recounts fifty years of Washington State's dynamic, internationally competitive tree fruit industry. He discusses major changes, players, and organizations, as well as significant challenges and emerging threats.

About the author

Desmond O'Rourke has studied and worked in the Washington State fruit industry for more than fifty years (thirty in the WSU Department of Agricultural Economics), and since 2000, as a private consultant through his company, Belrose, Inc., for 24 years publisher of the World Apple Report. He has published on many aspects of the world fruit trade, and has served on numerous national, state, and university committees.

Product details

• Authors: Desmond O'Rourke, O'Rourke Desmond
• Publisher: Washington state univ.press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.04.2022, delayed
• EAN: 9780874224122
• ISBN: 978-0-87422-412-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches