Lynn Long discusses the fumigation in a new Regina cherry block at the Omeg orchard at The Dalles, Oregon. Cherry growers may balk at the cost of fumigating land before planting, but the cost is soon recouped through higher productivity, Lynn Long, Oregon State University Extension educator, told growers during a summer orchard tour at The Dalles. Growers visited an orchard that Mike Omeg replanted in 2008 that had been in agricultural production since 1900. At one time, it was a vineyard. It was most recently a cherry orchard, with tree trunks you could barely get your arms around, he […]