Dr. Esmaeil Fallahi, a founder of the Idaho table grape industry, has tested many different varieties. Idaho has a burgeoning table grape industry with more than 40 commercial growers. Though the idea of growing table grapes in the famed potato state was greeted with skepticism and ridicule a decade ago, growers are finding that certain varieties grow better there than in California. When fruit physiologist Dr. Esmaeil Fallahi joined the University of Idaho at Parma in 1989, southwestern Idaho had a wine grape industry but produced no table grapes. Fallahi observed that the climate was similar to that of his […]