Controlled atmosphere storage refers to a suite of practices regulating levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature and ...

David Rudell, a research plant physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Wenatchee, gave the crowd a few best ...

To get the right combination of cold resistance and coveted wine flavor, Plocher and other breeders cross North America’s ...

Julianna Wilson had tales to tell about the spotted wing drosophila, the invasive fruit fly that’s become a major pest of ...

The new year kicked off with some new alignments in the Washington tree fruit industry, following the closure of the Sage ...

Over the past 10 years, U.S. shippers of apples, cherries and pears have increasingly relied on their southern neighbor to ...

Wood has been ground-harvesting cider apples by hand for more than three decades. He knows a handful of other growers in the ...

Fruit2U Packers, a stone fruit, table grape and citrus packer, recently installed solar panels so the packing house can keep the power on during South Africa’s frequent power outages, known as load ...

Large, high-quality cherries make a block profitable, even if producing them is expensive. Training limbs, renewing branches ...

Isaac is second-generation in the fruit industry. He is one of three sons of Silvia Muñiz and Carlos Balderas. age/ ...

“We have reached the stage of critical mass, meaning that we now have year-round volume,” said Kevin Brandt, vice president ...