British Columbia fruit growers have voted to continue their support for the Canadian province’s innovative but costly codling moth control program. Of 435 eligible ballots received by the B.C. Fruit Growers’ Association, 65.5 percent favored continued grower support for the Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile Insect Release program. “A two-to-one vote is a fairly strong endorsement,” association president Joe Sardinha said. The association sent ballots to its 1,040 members in late December. Ballots returned represented about half the apple and pear growers in the association, Sardinha said. That’s about twice the response to a mail-in poll last year regarding the association’s governance structure. […]