A new CA control system supplied by Storage Control Systems, Sparta, Michigan, was installed at Michigan State University in 2008. Employee Dan Boozer is pictured. The new lab contains individual cabinets in which small lots of fruit can be held under tightly controlled conditions. As more and more Honeycrisp apples come to market each year, growers need to store more of them and sell them over a longer season. Increasingly, they’ll have to come to grips with this fact: Honeycrisp do not store well. For several years, postharvest physiologists have anticipated this growing need and have tried to develop a […]