photo by John Clements, University of Massachusetts Win Cowgill, horticulturist at Rutgers ­University and area fruit agent located in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, is working on a project to help growers choose varieties. He and Jon Clements at University of Massachusetts collaborated for the last three growing seasons creating a Web site called Appletesters.net. They hope it will help growers make good variety choices for their orchards—and help their neighbors do the same. Cowgill’s apple grower clientele are mostly direct marketers—growers who meet the public face to face and can see customer satisfaction with an apple variety in a direct […]