Jake and Nick Rasch are sixth-generation fruit growers who are putting their own spin on new technologies and orchard training systems on their more than 500-acre operation on West Michigan’s famed Fruit Ridge.

Tour visitors from the International Fruit Tree Association’s (IFTA) annual conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in February were shown a block of Bellaire peaches planted in 2020 on Bailey rootstock at Rasch Family Orchards.

The in-row, V-system peach blocks have produced more uniform-sized fruit, and the number of peach pickings has been reduced from eight or nine down to five or six.

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