High-tech unit, which has 79 drop points, is nearly the length of a football field.

Willow Drive Nursery in Ephrata, WA, presents a Honeycrisp color sport, a Gala sport, Cripps Pink sport, and more.

Wafler Nursery of Walcott, NY, offers a new Honeycrisp cross, McIntosh sport, early Gala, and more.

Van Well Nursery in Wenatchee, WA, presents a new Cripps Pink sport, new scab-free cultivar, new Italian cross of Gala and Elstar, and more.

C&O Nursery in Wenatchee, WA, offers a Jonagold sport, an early Fuji, and a Red Delicious sport.

Adams County Nursery, Inc., in Aspers, PA, offers a Honeycrisp strain that ripens three weeks before the original variety.

Fruit may have lower Brix levels, soluble solids lower than normal.

One wooden apple hidden at one of 21 pick-your-own orchards throughout state.

Labor is needed to help harvest apple crop in the fall.

EPA approves use of bactericide on pome fruit as disease management tool.

Higher wholesale prices offered as means to boost canning pear acres.

The nations’s largest growers reflect how technology, innovations, and promotion help make their businesses run more efficiently.

ARS study focuses on disease resistance and cold tolerance to produce better apple rootstock varieties.

Apple growers moving farther south over the past 35 years.

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is considering allowing the importation of fresh apples from China into the continental United States.

Mark Nicholson of Red Jacket Orchards in Geneva, NY, incoming chairman.

Stemilt Growers receives rights to MN55, a Honeycrisp cross, from the University of Minnesota.

Generally high quality predicted at U.S. Apple Association Crop Outlook and Marketing Conference.

Conditions lately have been ripe for fungi fiasco.