Jim Schupp (on tractor) took an active role in evaluating the Darwin blossom thinner and considers it a key to peach profitability. Photo by Richard Lehnert Peach growers in Pennsylvania are being urged—by some convincing data—along a path that changes the look of their orchards and the methods they use to manage them. Like apple growers, they are adopting planar canopies and higher densities and looking at new technologies, especially platforms, as ways to grow better quality fruit and cut the cost of labor to do it. Most of the convincing data has come from Pennsylvania State University’s Fruit Research […]