50th Anniversary
Ohio researchers from 1981
From the February 1981 issue of FGN: Table grape cultivars, growing in a test vineyard at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center are examined by Dr. Garth Cahoon and Dr. Gail Romberger Nonnecke. Dr.... more »
More states growing their own wine grapes
While California remains the leader in grape and wine production in the United States, other regions of the country are quickly catching on. Both new and old growers are getting into the grape and wine... more »
Plantings are closer, denser than they were 50 years ago
Three Extension educators shared their thoughts on the ways tree fruit growing systems have changed in the last 50 years. Jerry Frecon, Rutgers University: In the 44 years I have been working with commercial orchards,... more »
Tree training in 1973
Tom Rasch of Greenville in west-central Michigan is shown with his 9-year old son, Tommy, examining training techniques used on a semi-dwarf apple tree in March, 1973. Between 90 and 95 percent of Rasch's fruit... more »
Managing pests
From April 1973: W.W. "Bill" Thompson, MSU Extension fruit entomologist and program director for the Cooperative Orchard Pest Management Project, is shown examining buds on an apple tree in one of the project's orchards. more »
Challenges pile up for honeybees, other pollinators
How has pollination changed during the last 50 years? In many ways - most of them bad. Let's start with rental fees. If you don't have native bees to pollinate your crops, you can rent... more »
Crop protection has entered a new era: IPM
Before examining the ways crop protection techniques have changed over the last half-century, George Bird wanted to go back a little further - 12,000 years or so. Bird, 72, doesn't go back that far, but... more »
50 Years of FGN
Fruit Growers News is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and after looking through five decades of old issues, I am amazed at how much the fruit industry has changed - and at the same... more »
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