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Managing Editor Jim Black
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6 Walter Clore Center receives grant
38 Growing grapes with less water
Project aims to help growers improve water management strategies.
DEPARTMENTS
32 Good To Know Fungicide tools and resistance management guidelines for cherries and grapes
40 Good To Go 41 Good Deals 44 Advertiser Index 45 Classified 46 Last Bite Bing
7 Gleaners at work ON THE WEB
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Geraldine Warner gwarner@goodfruit.com
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