USDA project, which also includes cranberries, is designed to sustain increasing demand by adapting to changing consumer preferences and expanding into new production regions.
Despite gloom and doom over tariffs this year, and trade worries in general in the next few, people with money will want the best products in the world.
Fruit trees begin to go dormant in response to shortening day length in the fall. Exposure to freezing temperatures accelerates the onset of cold hardiness.