- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: September 2, 2011

Grapes, Sonoma County's No. 1 crop, were valued at about $390 million in 2010; the Gravenstein apple checked in at No. 13, with $1.7 million.
Gravenstein —the jewel of a once-thriving apple industry in the Sonoma County — is in danger, its supporters say, in large part because of another product from Sonoma: wine, reported Jesse McKinley in the New York Times. Director of the UC Agricultural Issues Center, Dan Sumner, explained the economics of the cropping shift in Sonoma County.
“If a Gravenstein apple could be sold for 10 times what a Red Delicious could, just as a Sonoma County grape can be sold for 10 times what a Fresno County grape is, you’d be set,” Sumner said. He said the decline of...
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