Quiet innovators

摘要

Neither Craig nor Mike O'Brien likes to be in the spotlight.For the past 40 years or so, the brothers have been quietly dedicating themselves to figuring out how to grow the highest yields of the best quality tree fruit. Ironically, their efforts have caught the attention of growers far and wide and earned them the tide of Good Fruit Growers of the Year for 2014.C & M Orchards at Prosser, Washington, has drawn visitors from as far away as Chile, New Zealand, and South Africa who come to see some of the most intensively planted orchards in the state, if not the country. Busloads of members of the International Fruit Tree Association made a stop there during their annual conference in 2011.