The downside to adopting the single-pass application is that it changes the harvest logistics to get the bins through the drencher before they are stacked to await loading, Matson said. Once harvest ...

Julianna Wilson had tales to tell about the spotted wing drosophila, the invasive fruit fly that’s become a major pest of ...

To get the right combination of cold resistance and coveted wine flavor, Plocher and other breeders cross North America’s ...

The new year kicked off with some new alignments in the Washington tree fruit industry, following the closure of the Sage ...

Isaac is second-generation in the fruit industry. He is one of three sons of Silvia Muñiz and Carlos Balderas. age/ ...

B.J. Thurlby, president of Northwest Cherries, recaps the 2024 cherry season to kick off the 82nd annual Cherry Institute Jan ...

Over the past 10 years, U.S. shippers of apples, cherries and pears have increasingly relied on their southern neighbor to ...

Wood has been ground-harvesting cider apples by hand for more than three decades. He knows a handful of other growers in the ...

Large, high-quality cherries make a block profitable, even if producing them is expensive. Training limbs, renewing branches ...

“We have reached the stage of critical mass, meaning that we now have year-round volume,” said Kevin Brandt, vice president ...

The standard advice for surviving the apple industry’s present downturn is to use block-level accounting to understand which orchards are paying their bills and which are bleeding. Now, new ...