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  • April 1st 2008 Issue
  • Keeping orchards competitive

    New technologies will help growers address the challenges of growing fruit in the future.

    Allan Brothers, Inc., in Yakima, Washington, are among the adventuresome few who go out of their way to find and try new ideas. Travis Allan (right) and Tom Auvil with the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission explain how a third-leaf Honeycrisp block Today’s fruit growers will need to rank in the top 30 percent of the world’s producers if they’re going to be successful over the next 15 to 20 years. That was the message Dr. Clark Seavert, an agricultural economist with Oregon State University, delivered at a Fruit School on Competitive Orchard Systems held in Washington State earlier this […]

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