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Several years ago, grower Jason Matson started to wonder if the decay problems Matson Fruit was dealing with could be caused by cross-contamination from the recirculating fungicide drencher at his ...

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The Washington State Tree Fruit Association kicked off Day 2 of its annual meeting with a cherry session and a tour of an Allan Bros. orchard in Naches, Washington, followed by sessions about ...

Winemakers are asking for white grapes. Brokers are scrambling to keep up with white wine demand. Growers are planting or grafting white varieties. Washington’s white wines are having a moment, ...

Every year, apple fruit thinning overlaps with cherry harvest, posing tough labor management decisions. Northwest engineering researchers are working on a bot for that. Students and researchers at ...

Michigan State University researchers recently created an annotated genome for Montmorency, the variety that dominates the U.S. tart cherry industry. The breakthrough will help researchers and ...

Measuring yield variability in a tart cherry orchard block has never been an exact science. For some growers, it consists of sending someone to count the number of bins and roughly gauge the distance ...

To embrace an integrated pest management approach to pear psylla management, growers needed to have faith that natural enemies would show up in the orchard at the right time and magnitude to protect ...

Growing organic apples is hard, but reading their market can be just as hard. Overlapping, though not conflicting, messages characterized the first organics session in several years at the Washington ...

Wildfire smoke exposure remains a top research priority for the wine industry as we work to find solutions to the negative impacts experienced across the West in recent years. Congress recently ...

Apple growers in the Pacific Northwest are needed to participate in a survey that will support the development of a life cycle assessment and help develop region-specific solutions to address climate ...