Great Lakes region fruit growers won’t soon forget 2012, the year that Mother Nature, for the first time in the lifetimes of all but a few, froze them out of the fruit business. But the effects of this forced vacation from fruit production will linger on into 2013—something that will be a theme in presentations during the Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable, and Farm Market Expo December 4-6 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The first fruit-related educational ­session on Tuesday morning is titled “weather risk management in tree fruit.” Michigan climatologist Jeff Andresen kicks it off with a look back at the […]