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Archive for the honeycrisp tag

Michigan apple growers are trying to freeze time

November 19, 2013   •   Leave a Comment

AP:

This year’s Michigan apple crop is expected to be 10 times as plentiful as last year’s puny output.

While the big bounce-back is welcomed in the nation’s third-largest apple-producing state, the bounty presents its own challenges: How do growers, packers and processors maximize storage to avoid flooding stores with the fruit, thus crashing the market and lowering growers’ profits?

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Filed Under: Clippings Tagged With: apple, Apples, crop, Harvest, honeycrisp, methylcyclopropene, smart fresh

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