U.S. blueberry growers have doubled their promotion assessment to keep up with a rapidly increasing global supply. At a ...

We know commercial apples need pollination to set an adequate crop, and most of them can’t pollinate themselves. We know ...

Tanto las redes como las hojas dan sombra a las manzanas durante la época más calurosa del verano, protegiéndolas de las quemaduras solares. La eliminación de cualquiera de los dos elementos —ya sea ...

At Ridgeview Orchards, grower Dan Dietrich has been experimenting with reflective fabric and mechanized picking platforms.

El nuevo “libro de texto para WA 38” de la Universidad Estatal de Washington presenta los mejores métodos de poda.

Hood River Valley growers have produced it in small quantities commercially for a few years now, but some of the trees may have pear vein yellows, a common pear virus that can diminish vigor. Most of ...

Manoella Mendoza of the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission leads a field day about the WA 64, the apple to be marketed as Sunflare, through a Phase 3 commercial trial block near Prosser, ...

The Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association suggests growers consider making legal claims against Del Monte Foods for pears delivered this year, as the canner enters bankruptcy proceedings. In a ...

One of the worst chores at Chad Steiner’s Chelan Valley Farms vineyard is weed eating. “It’s a horrible job,” Steiner said. “Multiple days hanging on to a heavy piece of equipment.” But the ...

From left, Shivani Rana, Nawab Ali and Gianna Fiore, researchers in Younsuk Dong’s Michigan State University irrigation lab, set up electrical resistivity tomography equipment in an apple research ...

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Results Partners viticulturist Julie Tarara scouts for powdery mildew in a steep vineyard near Milton-Freewater, Oregon, as she makes her rounds in May through the Walla Walla Valley. She oversees ...