Puffer research Dear Good Fruit Grower: I am a University of California pomology farm advisor and have worked in the pear industry for going on 26 years. I read the article on WSU mating disruption research in the March 1 Good Fruit Grower and noted that it stated that mating disruption began in walnuts in California. Actually, puffer mating disruption that is currently being used in tree fruit began in 1996 by Dr. Harry Shorey, who developed the strategy and was funded by the California pear industry to test the dispensers in an areawide project in Lake County. I was his […]