Given the average yield of the experiment of 16,220 lbs. per acre (average of 4 years from 2014 to -2017) and an average price of $ 1.32 per lb., returns to management is estimated at $6,260 per acre.

Traditional plantings of avocados are spaced 20'x15' or 145 trees per acre (Photo by Ben Faber).

The avocado tree typically can produce up to about one million flowers but will only typically set about 100 to 200 fruit per tree.....or in other words, 1 fruit in 10,000... Sometimes they will set fruit but then drop them when they are pea to walnut size...

Using the high-density method, growers plant up to 400 avocado trees per acre on 10-foot by 10-foot blocks per tree - about four times the usual 110 trees per acre they plant on 20-foot by 20-foot blocks. Growers cap the height of the tree at about 8 feet. Most avocado trees are about 35 feet tall.