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Apple orchards planted with Boskoop (white) and Braeburn (pink) varieties blossom in the commercial fruit orchards below the historic Castle Hulsberg, in the Flemish part of Belgium. New EU regulations require 25% of all European crops to be grown organically. Less than 3% of Belgian apple production is organic, with about 25% less productivity but a 50% higher price. It takes three years to convert a farm from conventional to organic, a period when the declining yields have to be sold at the conventional price. The increasingly erratic climate also makes organic fruit precarious to grow, as farmers have fewer remedies for related plant diseases. Conventional agriculture standards in Europe are very similar to organic standards in the U.S.

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Apple orchards planted with Boskoop (white) and Braeburn (pink) varieties blossom in the commercial fruit orchards below the historic Castle Hulsberg, in the Flemish part of Belgium. New EU regulations require 25% of all European crops to be grown organically. Less than 3% of Belgian apple production is organic, with about 25% less productivity but a 50% higher price. It takes three years to convert a farm from conventional to organic, a period when the declining yields have to be sold at the conventional price. The increasingly erratic climate also makes organic fruit precarious to grow, as farmers have fewer remedies for related plant diseases. Conventional agriculture standards in Europe are very similar to organic standards in the U.S.

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