 So, most producers earn less than $5,000 per year, with a third of them not having sold anything so far.Moreover, the plantings have so far been mostly of Chinese species, but the products are not readily available.The American Chestnut Foundation recommends waiting a while more before large-scale planting, because its associates (the American Chestnut Cooperators' Foundation and many others from education, research and industry sectors contributing to the program) and it are at the last stages of developing a variety that is as close as possible to the American chestnut, while having incorporated the blight-resistant gene of the Asiatic species.