IFTA presents awards The International Fruit Tree Association gave recognition to fruit growers, researchers, and extension specialists during its annual meeting in Boston in February. The Outstanding Industry Service Award went to Elwin “Stub” Hardy, a New Hampshire fruit grower who died January 22 at the age of 92. His family’s Brookdale Fruit Farm, near Hollis, New Hampshire, was visited the day of the banquet by seven busloads of IFTA visitors. Hardy brought dwarfing rootstocks to New England in the 1960s and chaired IFTA’s rootstock research committee for 21 years. “I come to pay tribute to a great man,” said […]