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NOAH FISH Agri News ROCHESTER — Apple pick- ing is next to pumpkin spice and football on the list of fall favorites, and most Minnesota orchards are now fully stocked with apples ready to be plucked from trees. “Everybody should get out to their local orchard when they can, because it’s a short season,” said Fred Kappauf, who with his three children operates Sekapp Orchard in Rochester. He said most orchards are open at least through Halloween, and Sekapp is open until Christmas. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture says early sea- son apple varieties like Zestar, SweeTango, Sweet Sixteen and McIntosh are available for pick- ing now. Honeycrisp, Haralson, Regent and Honeygold will ripen throughout the month. Sekapp Orchard has been run by the Kappauf family since the early 1960s, and they’ve since joined the Minnesota Apple Growers Association and have planted several new varieties of apple trees. Kappauf said the orchard is having a good start to the season, and the abundance of rain was actually good for finish- ing apples. At Sekapp Orchard and several other orchards across the state, an excitement can still be sensed from the debut of a new apple variety, called First Kiss. First Kiss is the brand name for apples developed by the ap- ple breeding team at the Uni- versity of Minnesota, Agri News reported. The variety was de- veloped to ripen about a month earlier than Honeycrisp apples, while still providing a similar texture and taste for which uni- versity-bred apples are known. ‘The best of both worlds’ LeILa naVIdI, STAR TRIBUNE David Bedford picks an apple off the tree to demonstrate how he tastes them. Bedford, a research scientist for the University of Minnesota’s apple-breeding program, gives a tour of the U’s Horticultural Research Center in Excelsior, Minn. Minnesota orchards debut First Kiss apple variety Please see FIrSt KISS, Page A3
Article from 24 Sep 2018The Winona Daily News(Winona, MN)
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