Effective strategies can boost orchard profitability, but rest-breaking isn’t a cure-all for poor adaptability. By Anna Mouton. “There are very few orchards in our group that don’t receive rest-breaking applications,” says Pierre Rossouw, technical director at Stems Fruit. “I think…
The Lingenfelder brothers reveal the secrets of success with Cheeky. By Anna Mouton. The farm Rustfontein in Vyeboom has been in the Lingenfelder family since 1930 and the first apples were planted in 1978. The third generation of Lingenfelders —…
How it works and why it matters. By Anna Mouton. The ancestors of the apples we grow today probably came from some freezing mountain on the borders of Kazakhstan — not from the Garden of Eden. These trees evolved winter…