For more than a century, the freestone peach market in the eastern United States was dominated by two varieties. First was Elberta, a peach from Georgia that dominated production from 1880 to about 1950. Then, along came Michigan’s Redhaven, which became the world’s most-planted peach for the rest of the twentieth century. But that single-variety domination sends a quirky message, for it suggests a lack of activity by breeders or lack of change in the industry, and that’s not the case. For most of the last century, breeders have churned out new varieties. There are, in fact, so many choices […]