Apple Varieties

From the University of Minnesota breeding program that brought you Honeycrisp!

The University of Minnesota is recognized as one of the top apple breeding and genetics research programs in the country. The apple breeding program began in the late 1800s with the goal of developing cold hardy apples that are both high quality and high yielding. 

At any given time, our apple breeding program has approximately 40,000 apple trees in various stages of evaluation.
Most of the breeding and evaluation takes place at the Horticultural Research Center in Victoria, MN. Our best apples undergo evaluation in commercial orchards in Minnesota and throughout the world as well as at other test sites across the U.S. before being released to the public.