Carolina Fruit Trees: The annual IFTA Orchard Short Tour took place in two of the sweetest states this summer

摘要

DESPITE a drought plaguing the region, it was business as usual during the 2008 International Fruit Tree Association (IFTA) Annual Orchard Short Tour, held June 22-25 in North and South Carolina. In fact, a few of the growers and researchers on the tour even referred to the lack of natural irrigation as beneficial. The reason for this became evident during a stop at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center in the southern Appalachian Mountains near Asheville, NC. In the absenceof water, a number of diseases and pests that can be very damaging to fruit crops cannot survive.