Jim Luby, who began directing the University of Minnesota's fruit breeding and genetics program in 1982, is retiring after 42 years. (University of Minnesota) ...

Pearson, amid the trees, agreed. David Bedford, an apple breeder at the University of Minnesota, can answer that. A member of the team that bred the Honeycrisp, Bedford said naming his creation ...

During his career Luby and his team created some of the tastiest apples in the country, including SweeTango, Zestar! and their biggest success, Honeycrisp ... grows into a tree that can survive ...

He is one of the people credited with breeding the Honeycrisp ... to picking up an apple is from your normal grocery customer browsing the fruit aisle. He stops at a tree laden with Honeycrisps.

“If you just used a Honeycrisp root system, it would never live,” he said. All of his trees produce eating apples, which command a higher price (about $3/pound, or $120/bushel, vs. cider ...

Even the Minnesotan Honeycrisp apple has come ... time but didn’t stop this year’s apple picking from coming in hot… literally. “The apple trees definitely don’t need the heat anymore.

If you love apple picking, you know that there’s nothing quite like that first bite of the first apple that you pick off of the tree ... They’ve got Honeycrisp and Macoun, they said in ...

“Having all the littles come from the city,” Grant said, “and they haven’t seen an actual apple tree before ... varieties available are McIntosh, Honeycrisp, Gala and Golden Delicious.

Apple picking season is one of the first signs the fall season is nearing in Iowa, and a number of orchards have opened up for business after Labor Day weekend. Jonathan, Red Delicious and Golden ...