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Wiggs: Consider the costs for crop insurance - Good Fruit Grower
This chart shows an example of cherry crop insurance at 70 percent of the insurance guarantee. (Source: Jennifer Wiggs/Washington State Fruit commission Board; Graphic: Jared Johnson/Good Fruit Grower ...
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Hansen: Smoke science research advances - Good Fruit Grower
The Washington State Wine Commission continues to have direct input in smoke research. At the state level, we fund smoke research at Washington State University. Regionally, we serve on the advisory ...
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Tech for measuring tart yields - Good Fruit Grower
Black is leading the effort to develop a yield-monitoring system for tart cherries — part of a four-year, $2 million research project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop ...
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Evidence for inaction with psylla control - Good Fruit Grower
Examples of data presented in the new app developed by Washington State University to help growers control pear psylla using integrated pest management. (Source: Tianna DuPont/Washington State ...
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H-2A expands despite costs - Good Fruit Grower
H-2A tips Tips and advice for growers using H-2A labor could fill a book, but here are a few highlights discussed during workshops and conferences this year: —Put a variety of farm tasks on the DOL ...
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The spread of spotted lanternfly – Good Fruit Grower
Heather Leach discussed the invasive pest in December, during the Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable & Farm Market EXPO in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Leach, an extension associate with Penn State University, ...
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Orchard pests also pose problems in the lab - Good Fruit Grower
Male and female leafhoppers cavort in a mating cage shortly after being caught for a research colony at the Mid-Columbia Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Hood River, Oregon. A few ...
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Hard cider sales show regional resiliency – Good Fruit Grower
McGrath said there are about 1,070 hard cideries in the United States (including breweries, wineries and meaderies that also make cider), a sevenfold increase since 2011. Cider is now made ...
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New task force tackles codling moth – Good Fruit Grower
A codling moth adult on an apple fruitlet. Codling moth management challenges prompted the creation of a new industry task force. (Courtesy Mike Doerr/Washington State University) To address the ...
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Parasitic wasps invited to a BMSB buffet – Good Fruit Grower
Small, fruit-fly sized samurai wasps (Trissolcus japonicus) emerge from brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) eggs and stretch their wings before flying off into a commercial apple orchard near White ...
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Edge effects may boost biocontrol – Good Fruit Grower
Himalayan blackberry already hosts populations of SWD, one of the challenges growers in the region face to manage the pest. It’s hoped that liability can become an asset if Ganaspis and other ...
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Stink bugs a foul foe - Good Fruit Grower
Linked to landscape BMSB first popped up in Oregon in 2004, but the past two years have been a turning point in terms of its threat to specialty crops, said Nik Wiman, an OSU entomologist based in the ...