Pear Cultivar, Rootstpck and Training System Trials in Oreqon

摘要

Today's marketplace presents many formidable challenges to the growers compared to the marketplace twenty years ago. Labor, fuel, pesticides, and other input costs are soaring. Added to that is the increasing pressure of competition from the global economy. Southern Hemisphere Bartlett pears are being marketed at a time when our winter pears are beginning to decline in quality. China is making a bid for international markets and sending their products our direction.