The University of Minnesota apple breeding program has developed what it believes is the next great apple. The SweeTango apple made its commercial debut on Monday and should cause quite a stir within ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A judge ordered the University of Minnesota and apple growers fighting for the right to grow a new apple developed at the university into mediation on Friday. The university developed ...

Members of the Next Big Thing Growers’ Cooperative have released estimates for the 2016 crop of SweeTango, the sweet, tangy and crunchy apple that was developed by the University of Minnesota to ...

Mike Zingler took 13 bushels of SweeTango apples to the East Aurora farmers' market last Saturday, giving Western New York its first chance to try the variety hailed as the successor to the wildly ...

You’ve probably heard of Honeycrisp apples. And maybe you’ve heard of the new apple variety the First Kiss or Rave. But how much do you know about how those apples were developed? The fruit breeding ...

LAKE CITY — "The best apple I’ve ever eaten in my life." That’s a strong statement from Dennis Courtier, a self-described "apple geek" and the president of Pepin Heights Orchards in Lake City. Is he ...

New varieties of apples appear now and again, and the SweeTango is a relatively new one that’s harvested the end of August and into September. It’s a very pretty apple with a bright mix of golden ...

Here in D.C., it is starting to feel like fall outside, which means if it's fall, it's apple season. But which apple? - Honeycrisp, Granny Smith, Red Delicious - you know, the classic. Well, if you ...

Agricultural researchers at the University of Minnesota brought us the Honeycrisp, and that variety of apple was a hit, to be sure. Their latest creation, SweeTango, is a one-of-a-kind hybrid that ...