Forest Nursery Disease Management Workshop: Eastern Session
Thirty-three percent of all forest tree nurseries in the U. S. and 43 percent of the nursery acreage are located in the South. Southern nurseries produce 69.9% of the annual seedling crop. The average southern nursery is 63.9 acres in size, and 99.4% of its annual crop is bare root stock. Since at least three nurseries are under construction in the South, this region may be widening its lead in forest regeneration activity. The high and increasing costs of producing nursery seedlings has increased the impact of disease losses. At the last Nurserymen's Conference in Charleston, I stated that the importance of nursery diseases is too often measured by the impact on seedling production. Too many responsible people, including many in attendance at this meeting, measure the importance of a disease by the number of seedlings lost in nursery beds. The real impact, however, is the loss in plantations due to the presence of a disease in nursery planting. Even a 1 percent growth reduction in a plantation over a 20-year rotation is a substantial monetary loss to a landowner.
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Author(s): S. J. Rowan, E. L. Barnard, C. E. Affeltranger
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Southern Nursery Conference: Eastern Session
1978 - Colonial Williamsburg, VA
