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  • From: mIEKAL aND <QAZINGULAZA@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Forbidden fruit: A new apple, the SweeTango, at center of controversy
  • Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:30:13 -0500

Forbidden fruit: A new apple, the SweeTango, at center of controversy

http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_d42e6658-b31d-11df-a58c-001cc4c03286.html

The SweeTango is everything you could want from an apple. It has crunch and lots of juice. As the name suggests, it's sweet, with a hint of spice. Already fat and red by August, it's an early taste of fall.

Fred Sandvick picks one off a young tree in his La Crescent orchard and tosses it to a visitor.

"It's a good apple," he says.

But without legal intervention this homegrown apple, invented by scientists at the University of Minnesota, won't be a money maker for Sandvick, or most Minnesota growers.

As the new crop ripens, a lawsuit is working its way through the courts, pitting Minnesota apple growers against one another and the institution that developed much of the fruit on which the industry is based. At the heart of the suit is a contract that gives one Lake City orchard the exclusive rights to market and sell this new apple - and to control who grows it.

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  • [NAFEX] Forbidden fruit: A new apple, the SweeTango, at center of controversy, mIEKAL aND, 08/29/2010

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