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

The Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile Insect Release (OKSIR) Board gets a lot of questions about the unique Canadian program for codling moth control taking place just north of the Washington border. Growers, ...

family background/ Leo graduated from Wenatchee Valley College and Washington State University with a degree in business administration. He is the son of Margarita and Francisco Sarmiento.

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Welch’s growers reported decent prices this year, “in the $400 range” for grapes, said Carter Kilian, a Sunnyside grower.

The standard advice for surviving the apple industry’s present downturn is to use block-level accounting to understand which ...

Sweet and hard cider are other good outlets for excess apple production, but U-pick is “by far the most profitable way to ...

Michigan’s fruit and vegetable industries can’t sustain H-2A wage increases for much longer, so they banded together to get the word out and convince their lawmakers to do something about it. The ...

After four years of work, a multistate research team is still tackling armillaria root rot “from every possible angle,” said Clemson University peach breeder Ksenija Gasic. They’ve located genes ...

The three keys to fruit production today are to grow the right varieties in the right places as efficiently as possible. That’s what Bruce Allen told Good Fruit Grower when he was recognized as the ...

Northwest Michigan’s Old Mission Peninsula, long known for its cherry orchards, has grown into a tourism and wine destination in the past few decades, and many of its cherry trees have been pulled out ...

Flooding apple orchards with sterile codling moths can overwhelm the local population and reduce mating success, lowering fruit damage rates. The practice provides the foundation for pest control in ...