What Is NC-140?
NC-140 is a north central regional project, funded by the USDA, that meets the guidelines presented by the North Central Regional Association (NCRA) in Guidelines for Multistate Research Activities. This project was established, under different names, in the 1960s by a group of horticultural researchers from across the United States and Canada to evaluate horticultural uses of rootstocks. In the mid 1970s, NC-140 was officially created and focused solely on apple rootstocks.
Prior to these national/international projects, …