February 1st 2013 Issue

Frost protection strategies

There’s nothing like a disaster to focus attention on ways to prevent freezes.

Tree and vine crops can be won or lost because of one or two critical degrees of cold temperature, so, ultimately, the best method of frost protection is good site selection. But even the best sites won’t be perfectly freeze-free. Is there a good way to recover those one or two degrees lost on a cold night? Research agricultural engineer Dr. Robert Evans, who recently retired from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service’s Northern Plains Laboratory in Sidney, Montana, spent his career studying ways to do that. Before his work at USDA, he spent more than 20 years doing frost protection […]

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February 1, 2013

Production, Technology and equipment, Richard Lehnert

Richard Lehnert

After growing up on a Michigan dairy farm, Richard Lehnert began writing about farming in 1962, while still a junior studying journalism at Michigan State University. He worked at newspapers for a year before joining the staff of Michigan Farmer, where he spent 26 years, the last 15 as chief editor. He was a member of the staff of Good Fruit Grower from 2010 until 2015. Read his stories: Story Index

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