Workers at Orchard View Farms tie cherry trees to the wire for training to the new Upright Fruiting Offshoots system. Growers working with the new Upright Fruiting Offshoots cherry training system are quickly learning some of the ins and outs of the system, especially how important it is to get trees and shoots in the right position from the start. The UFO system is a novel concept for most cherry growers, who traditionally have grown freestanding trees and not dealt much with wires and support structures like their apple-growing counterparts. The UFO, developed by Dr. Matt Whiting in Washington State […]