Pollination comes with problems. Bloom dates don’t overlap, honeybee colonies fail, weather doesn’t cooperate. The list goes on. Matt Whiting foresees a day when none of that matters. “What if I were to tell you now that everything you’ve heard … wouldn’t be an issue any longer? No problems with pollinizers, no problems with pollinators,” Whiting said to growers at the December Washington State Tree Fruit Association Annual Meeting in Yakima, Washington. “That in a nutshell is the vision that we have here.” After two years of experimenting, the stone fruit physiologist and his collaborators believe they have developed an […]