Managed varieties are a vital strategy for growers and marketers to protect the health and sustainability of their companies and of the industry itself, says Terry Bacon, director of variety development for Sun World International, LLC, of Bakersfield, California. California lags behind the rest of the world in terms of adopting managed varieties, mainly because of the abundance of unmanaged varieties and breeders who operate off per-tree royalties, Bacon said during the International Fruit Tree Association’s annual conference in Germany. However, because of changes in the industry, growers are starting to take interest in managed varieties. The problem with unmanaged […]