The majority of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants occurs on the eastern half of the United States. Tree fruit growers need to be proactive in order to avoid being impacted by government measures to address global warming, says Quincy, Washington, fruit grower and packer Warren Morgan. Although trees in orchards and forests sequester carbon dioxide, which is one of the greenhouse gases implicated in global warming, the tree fruit industry needs research to prove what’s happening in the typical orchard environment, he said. “If we don’t have any research, there’s no basis for the claims we would be making […]