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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 ...

—by Ross Courtney and Shannon Dininny. Dave Allan of Allan Bros. points out places he would make renewal cuts while leading a cherry orchard tour in Naches on Dec. 10 as part of the Washington State ...

The numbers. Price per ton for grapes overall increased from 2022 to 2023, according to the Washington State Wine Commission’s grape production report for 2023, a year of drastic volume decreases, ...

A second, “final,” 30-day period has opened during which the public may comment on deregulation of Okanagan Specialty Fruits’ non-browning apples, Arctic Golden and Arctic Granny. The period ends ...

Weeks before apple harvest began, British Columbia’s largest packer announced a sudden shutdown, sending growers scrambling. “There’s 200-plus farm families still belonging to the co-op that now have ...

When Hollender’s team announced the Montmorency genome in 2023, it was the result of about four years of work. Scientists had already cracked the sweet cherry genome, and Hollender’s team — which ...

En abril del 2023, Bella Barrera, una estudiante de la secundaria (escuela intermedia), hace señales a su compañera de escuela Kimberly Bravo mientras las dos intentan navegar un dron por un circuito ...

For years, growers have been asking what ratio of natural enemies to psylla they need to ensure strong biological control. To answer that question, researchers started by defining the line at which ...

Growing organic apples is hard, but reading their market can be just as hard. Overlapping, though not conflicting, messages characterized the first organics session in several years at the Washington ...