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