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Extension’s Institute for Ag Professionals Field School, the hands-on event for agricultural professionals, is back July 29-30.

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Growing an apple tree is a great way to enjoy delicious, fresh fruit from the comfort of your own home. Once these plants reach maturity, they can produce hundreds of apples per year—so you'll ...

but many fruit trees, like apples and pears, rely on cross-pollination for genetic diversity. Cross-pollination, or pollen shared from more than one variety of the same plant, can happen via birds, ...

Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, shining over the Sycamore Gap tree, on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England, July 3, 2016. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP, File) LONDON (AP) — It took well over a ...

You know how to grow and care for your apple tree and now you're ready to reap the best part — the fruit. But apples do not bloom all year long and sometimes things happen, like weather or even pests.