Laimburg Research Center’s Daniele Bona, left, shows the differences between high and low elevation in their variety trials. Golden Delicious is the major variety grown in the South Tyrol, but a slow shift to newer varieties and improved clones of traditional ones is taking hold. In the last four years, planting trend data show an increase in the exclusive Kanzi variety, Granny Smith, and Golden ­Delicious, but a decline in Fuji, Braeburn, Gala, Pinova, and Red Delicious. Last year, according to Kurt Werth, director of the variety innovation consortium known as SK, grower prices were highest for Pink Lady at […]