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  • June 2012 Issue
  • Story by Richard Lehnert

    • Substitute for SweeTango

    Fred Wescott wanted to grow and market the apple that was later named SweeTango. He had anticipated that it would be an open release variety, as all University of Minnesota-bred apples had been up until then. When the university decided to release it in 2005 as a managed variety under an exclusive licensing agreement, Wescott bid to obtain exclusive rights to it. When MN 1914 (SweeTango) went instead to Pepin Heights Orchard, Wescott joined with others in a lawsuit contending that a land-grant university should not have released the variety in a way that restricted or excluded many growers in […]

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    Apples, Varieties, Richard Lehnert
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    Richard Lehnert
    After growing up on a Michigan dairy farm, Richard Lehnert began writing about farming in 1962, while still a junior studying journalism at Michigan State University. He worked at newspapers for a year before joining the staff of Michigan Farmer, where he spent 26 years, the last 15 as chief editor. He was a member of the staff of Good Fruit Grower from 2010 until 2015. Read his stories: Story Index
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