Variety and cultivar selection is the largest economic decision a grower can make when establishing a new high-density orchard block where a thousand trees or more per acre are planted. Win Cowgill and Jon Clements want to help with that. The two fruit extension educators—Cowgill with the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and Clements with the University of Massachusetts—have collaborated once again on an Internet project, creating a new Web site called appletesters.net. It allows growers to log on and view records about variety performance. They can also help create records. By becoming apple testers, they can add their observations, […]