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 ...

To embrace an integrated pest management approach to pear psylla management, growers needed to have faith that natural enemies would show up in the orchard at the right time and magnitude to protect ...

Pests seem indestructible in an orchard, where they breed like crazy. Throw those bugs in a lab, and the story changes. They don’t like their diet. They won’t mate. They won’t lay eggs. And if another ...

The U.S. Department of Labor has enacted updated H-2A regulations that will affect everything from terminating worker contracts to union access to bus seat belts. A new final rule, called “Improving ...

To address the growing concern over codling moth management, the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission assembled a new industry task force last fall. Today, the task force consists of 29 members, ...

Almost a decade after the first brown marmorated stink bug outbreak cost Mid-Atlantic apple growers millions, the pest is no longer inducing panic, thanks to advancements in targeted management for ...

Achieving the perfect Pinot Noir block, with shoots positioned and leafed to create the picturesque wine-country visual expected by tourists in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, requires a lot of hand labor ...

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, ...

Of all the challenges facing the fruit industry, labor and retail trends rank high on the list. Speakers addressed those topics during the International Fruit Tree Association’s 66th annual conference ...

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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 ...

Researchers will present continuing and new proposals on nearly 30 topics, from grapevine heat stress, irrigation management and mealybugs to Raman spectroscopy for wine analytics, using ozone for ...