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

What does it take to identify a cherry? According to a long-running court case between the Canadian government and a few Washington fruit businesses, it requires several forms of DNA screening, years ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...