On Dec. 10, the U.S. Department of Agriculture opened a new $2 billion economic assistance program for specialty crop ...

Michelle Cook and Evan Esch of the the Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile Insect Release BoardThe Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile Insect ...

The experts at the Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile Insect Release Program, which produces the moths, originally thought M3’s ...

The Washington State Tree Fruit Association kicked off Day 2 of its annual meeting with a cherry session and a tour of an ...

“The main point you’re looking for is the ratio between sweetness and acidity,” Krishna Kumar said. “If there’s any ...

Growers who had weathered tough times before were forced to put their orchards up for sale, while others continue to struggle ...

Kempf, an Amish fruit and vegetable grower from Ohio, is the founder of consulting and supply company Advancing Eco ...

Theron’s colleague, Elke Crouch, and Mariette Kotze of Hortgro, the pome and stone fruit industry’s grower association, also ...

That means “heaven for tree fruit,” said company CEO Willem Coetzee in his introduction to the tour group, though others ...

Gary Grove, a soon-to-be professor emeritus of plant pathology at Washington State University, told growers they face ...

It’s been a rough year for many. Escalating costs, weather challenges, new regulations, retail consolidation … the list goes ...

The Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission announced in a news release the recent completion of its annual study of ...