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.

It’s been about a year since I joined the Washington Apple Commission. As someone who didn’t come from the apple world, I spent my first year learning about the industry, meeting stakeholders and ...

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 ...

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The canned pear industry’s primary customer is the federal government, which buys large cans such as these for school nutrition programs. But the government is also seeking to reduce added sugars in ...

When U.S. consumers think of table grapes, they envision the large, crisp, seedless grapes they buy in bunches at the grocery store, most of which are grown in California or Central and South America.

“That BC leaf has a value to a lot of people in Western Canada,” said Kirk Kemp, the owner of Algoma Orchards, a grower-packer in Ontario that will be operating the packing lines and storage ...