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In May, grower Leah Eddie made the rare move of inviting her neighbors and a couple of journalists to tag along when the Washington State Department of Agriculture came to her farm to review food ...

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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You know it’s a hot field day when attendees are hanging out under the drape net, trying to avoid sunburn, along with the pears. Luckily, there’s a lot of shade netting to be found in South African ...

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, ...

Editor’s note: In the weeks since this article was written, the dissolution of the BC Tree Fruits Cooperative moved ahead. The cooperative filed for creditor protection in early August, and court ...

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 ...

For the third time in four years, agricultural employers are adjusting their operations for a new round of H-2A regulatory changes. “The issue is keeping up with it,” said Sean Gilbert, president of ...

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 ...