Salvador Corral, president of La Norteñita, a major growing and packing operation in Cuauhtémoc, planted his first apple trees in 1968, and now has 5,000 acres of orchard. Some of the original seedling Golden Delicious trees are still producing well today, generating 70 to 80 bins per acre. The size of the trees hasn’t deterred the company from covering them with nets to protect them from the frequent hailstorms that hit the area. How frequent? To company horticulturist Horacio Gonzalez, it sometimes seems that every time it’s cloudy, it hails. The seedling Golden Delicious are planted on an 8 meter […]