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• Niche market - Plums have a summer market niche, but few growers have them.
• Trees in a sandbox - Peach growing practices are transformed by solid California research.
• New peach textures - Future breeders have the tools to make ideal peaches.
• Low chill hurts California cherry crop - Lack of winter tule fog impacted fruit set
• More than cherries - Diverse operations enable a California cherry packer to spread overhead and retain key employees.
• Organic pioneer - Mike Naylor has grown organic stone fruit for 30 years.
• Stone fruit farm stay - Guests learn about stone fruit farming while staying with the Naylors.
• Peaches inhibit cancer - Scientists found that consumption of peach polyphenolics slowed tumor growth.
• Scientist work on paper-wasp lure - Though often confused with yellowjackets, paper wasps do not respond to the same bait.
• Leaf removal benefits - Early leaf removal could change cluster structure.
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