Cultivating Sustainable Orchard Management Practices With Desmond Layne

One of the world’s leading experts in tree fruit horticulture extension joins the podcast today: Desmond Lane. Desmond is the Department Head and Professor at Auburn University Horticulture, where he draws from more than 30 years of experience to inform his role as a research administrator.

Desmond joins us to discuss his work with orchards and address how he has contributed to positively impacting the future of the tree fruit industry… .

In this episode, we explore:

1) Why labor is impacting farmers’ ability to be sustainable.
2) The fruits that are mechanically harvested in modern agriculture.
3) Irrigation methods that produce high-quality fruit and mitigate end-of-season losses.

Desmond is dedicated to facilitating sustainable orchard management practices, which requires a significant amount of analysis—wondering how these factors influence fruit production as a whole? Click play to find out!

To learn more about Desmond Layne and his work visit agriculture.auburn.edu now