The Specialty Crop Cast
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Welcome to The Specialty Crop Cast on Pomes and Stones! Join us for real conversations with farmers, agribusiness owners, and industry experts as we dive into farming, products, and the business of agriculture—all from the people who know it best.
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Focuses on the agricultural sector with specific episodes covering topics like harvest techniques, personal anecdotes from farming life, and the future of specialty crops with examples like inspiring stories from the cherry industry and insights into the production of apples.
Welcome to The Specialty Crop Cast on Pomes and Stones! Join us for real conversations with farmers, agribusiness owners, and industry experts as we dive into farming, products, and the business of agriculture—all from the people who know it best.
On this episode of The Specialty Crop Cast on Pomes and Stones we welcome Travis Bratschi owner of Bratschi Orchards. A first generation farmer started small and has grown himself a beautiful apple farm located in Traverse City Michigan! Travis breaks down what it takes to grow beautiful fruit in a sometimes non-cooperative often volatile growing season.
In this episode we will be learning what it takes to run a high production apple farm. What varieties does travis grow? How does he deal with damaging hail storms? How does he color up fruit and keep quality apples through long storage windows? We answer all that and much more in this weeks episode of The Specialty Crop Cast!
Thank you Travis for coming into the studio and sharing your farming journey!
As chery harvest approaches we will be taking an break through the month of July! Talon and the guys will be back in August with harvest updates and a lineup of new guests!
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