Fruit Year In Review Part 2
Fruit Year In Review Part 2. I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report.
As we continue our look back at some of the top ag stories of the year it was clear that the family farm was in need of some TLC and Michael Stolp with Farm Credit Services discusses some of the things you could do for your family farming business.
STOLP: The first thing that you can do is build a history timeline. Then, where is your business today? You know I think as you bring in family members to your business it's really important to level set and understand "what's our baseline." What's our baseline? What's our business coming into and moreover, what are those things we are doing right and are we doing the right things?"
Vicky Scharlau with the National Grape and Wine Initiative talks about how they are attempting to get the entire grape growing industry to work together.
SCHARLAU: The National Grape and Wine Initiative is really an umbrella organization that represents the interests of the grape and grape product processing industry throughout the U.S. If we were going to try to retool and focus industry wide research - industry wide research meaning not just us, not just the west coast but the whole U.S. so that we can get more - represent more at the national level. How do we do this?
China has finally opened their doors to all varieties of U.S. pears. Kevin Moffitt with Pear Bureau NW says there were a couple of issues that had kept China from accepting the trade.
MOFFITT: The biggest one was fire blight. China claims they don't have fire blight so we had to jump through a lot of hoops. We had some studies conducted that showed that fire blight isn't carried on fruit itself. And they're also concerned with some things like codling moth.
That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.
