Iuar Iraira (foreground), manager of the Fundo Agua Buena orchard (in the center picture), discusses the Voen louvered rain cover with international visitors. The area, south of Temuco, receives more than 70 inches of rainfall annually. Producing some of the latest maturing cherries in Chile is Leonardo Salas’s competitive advantage—and perhaps his only one. His orchard is at Gorbea, south of Temuco, on the southern limit of Chile’s cherry-producing region. The climate is relatively cool and wet, with more than 1,800 mm (72 inches) of rain annually. The Salas family has about 500 hectares (1,250 acres) of forest and farmland […]