syahrir maulana/iStock via Getty Images The Four-Year Harvest Avocado trees take three to four years to bear first fruit and four to five years to reach full production. You can’t rush biology. A farmer who plants an orchard today is making a bet on conditions years into the future—conditions that are impossible to predict with certainty. The work happens anyway, because the alternative is having nothing ready when it’s time to harvest. Or… having no guacamole. 2025 tested the patience of quality-focuse ...

Stocks fell again Wednesday as Wall Street reacted to the latest bank earnings and updates on wholesale price inflation and retail sales.The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 14 points, or pretty much flat. The S&P 500 was down 0.4%. The Nasdaq Composite was down 0.7%.WTI crude oil futures rose 0.9% to $61.71 as Wall Street continued to pay close attention to the geopolitical situation in Iran. The price of gold was up 1%, while silver jumped 6.5% amid another wave of speculative enthusiasm. ...