APGA tour offers optimistic glimpse of industry direction

摘要

Most pecan growers will tell you that if they make the effort to attend a grower meeting or field day or orchard tour, they always learn something. Those Alabama pecan growers who made the trip to South Georgia for their association's annual summer tour learned a lot — much of which should put them in an optimistic frame of mind about the future of the industry. The group gathered at Merritt Pecan Company in Weston, Georgia, where the tour included Richard and Tammy Merritt's impressive retail storeas well as their adjacent orchard. This first stop gave participants a look at new chemicals that Bayer Crop Science hopes to have labeled for the 2011 season.