The path to commercialization

For seven years now, Rutgers University of New Jersey and Adams County Nursery in Aspers, Pennsylvania, have been working under a “formal relationship” in which the nursery brings new fruit selections developed by the university into commercial channels. Not much was said about it until this year, when Rutgers’ extension stone fruit expert—Jerome “Jerry” Frecon, known across the eastern United States as “Mr. Peach”—retired and became a horticultural consultant at Adams County Nursery. In a sense, that cemented the already ­existing link between the county and New Jersey’s land-grant university. During the International Fruit Tree Association’s winter meeting in Boston, […]