The first step it identified was to develop close long - term partnerships with local fruit farmers, who supply fresh and healthy raw fruit. (tomra.com)
Others — such as some tree fruit farmers — deal with certain climate and bug issues that make pesticide - free farming extremely difficult. (rismedia.com)
Hosler recalls another colleague, this one working in hail abatement research in Pennsylvania, who ran afoul of local fruit farmers who worried that the effort might cause a drought and ruin their livelihood. (discovermagazine.com)