Many cherry growers in Tasmania protect their orchards with hail nets and rain covers. The International Dwarf Fruit Tree Association held its 50th annual meeting in Hobart, Tasmania, in February. Geraldine Warner reports on the changes that the Tasmanian tree fruit industry is going through. The small Australian island of Tasmania, once the largest apple producer in the Southern Hemisphere, is finding a new niche supplying late-season cherries when no others are available. The rugged island, less than 200 miles wide, used to have close ties to the United Kingdom, having been colonized during the nineteenth century primarily by convicts […]