Apple industry leaders from across Washington predict a short crop this year, with estimates ranging from 100 million to 115 million boxes, according to discussion…
Dawood Ahmed, left, a doctoral student at Washington State University, and Alex You, a doctoral student at Oregon State University, celebrate a successful in-orchard pruning…
A drone at rest in a Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory vineyard in Portland, New York. Cornell researchers deploy various sensors on drones…
The tricky balance of storing Honeycrisp. After harvest, the profitable variety is typically kept at 50 degrees Fahrenheit for a week before storing it at…
Sunburn model applications by Washington State University researchers predict shade netting will help but will not be enough to protect apples from sunburn over the…
Northwest sweet cherry growers are predicting a 2022 crop of 13.6 million 20-pound box equivalents, or 136,800 tons, which is down significantly from recent years…
On May 16, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the availability of approximately $6 billion in disaster assistance for commodity and specialty crop growers who…
Joe Vargas has been hired as the director of business intelligence for the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC) and North American Blueberry Council (NABC), according…
Skeena cherries in Selah, Washington, hang in mid-July, shriveled from the 2021 heat wave that now has growers throughout the Northwest carefully considering their planting…
The Pear Bureau Northwest is inviting pear growers to its 90th annual meeting, which will be held June 1 and 2 in Portland, Oregon. The…