California Pear Crop Expected To Increase Slightly By Growing Produce Staff|July 5, 2011 At a recent meeting of the California Pear Advisory Board, a pre-season crop estimate of just over 4.1 […]Read More
Pink Lady America Asks Consumers To Check Fruit By Growing Produce Staff|June 7, 2011 Pink Lady America, the association supported by Pink Lady® growers, is requesting that shoppers look at the price […]
Oregon And Washington Pear Growers Vote To Continue Marketing Order Posted by Christina Herrick|April 28, 2011 The USDA announced this week that pear growers in Oregon and Washington voted to continue their federal marketing […]
Online Exclusive: A Sampling Of New Apple Varieties By Growing Produce Staff|April 27, 2011 Variety: SweeTango/Minneiska Information provided by: Tim Byrne, Pepin Heights Orchard Characteristics: SweeTango® brand apples are characterized visually by […]
Right To The Core: Apple Research: Vision For The Future By Nancy Foster|April 21, 2011 Spring means apple bud and bloom time, and hard work by growers to thin and manage their crop. […]
California Apple Growers Get New PGR Posted by Christina Herrick|April 15, 2011 Fine Americas, Inc., a leading manufacturer and marketer of plant growth regulators for the fruit industry, recently announced […]
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Causes $37 Million In Losses To Mid-Atlantic Apple Growers Posted by Christina Herrick|April 14, 2011 Mid-Atlantic apple growers lost $37 million last year from damage caused by the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) […]
Stemilt Gets New, State-Of-The-Art Cherry Line By Growing Produce Staff|April 12, 2011 Stemilt Growers has constructed a new red cherry line at its largest packing facility Olds Station, in preparation […]
Retail Pear Displays Spring To Life with New Recipes And Point of Sale Materials By Growing Produce Staff|April 12, 2011 Pear Bureau Northwest has developed fresh, new point of sale materials to raise consumer awareness of the April, […]
Record-Breaking Year For Washington Apple Industry By Growing Produce Staff|April 12, 2011 The 2010 apple crop in Washington is on track to set a record as the largest ever, the […]
Fire Blight Controls Under Fire By Growing Produce Staff|April 5, 2011 Two of the most widely used tools over the past 30 years for the control of fire blight […]
Harry & David Files For Bankruptcy By Growing Produce Staff|March 30, 2011 Crippled by debt piled upon it by its Wall Street owners, storied Oregon fruit company Harry & David […]
SweeTango Lawsuit Yields Looming Questions By Brian Sparks|March 23, 2011 The new apple variety SweeTango has created both excitement and controversy since it was introduced a couple years […]
Genetically Engineered, Non-Browning Apple Faces Opposition By Growing Produce Staff|March 22, 2011 The U.S. Apple Association (USApple), in a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack, urged him […]
Blossom Thinner Pays Off By David Eddy|March 21, 2011 As a group of Northern California clingstone peach growers crowded around, Roger Duncan fired up a tractor-mounted string […]
Pushing The Envelope By David Eddy|March 21, 2011 “Sustainable Innovation” was the theme of the International Fruit Tree Association’s 54th Annual Conference in Pasco, WA, and […]
Stemilt Takes Mobile Marketing To A New Level With QR Codes By Growing Produce Staff|March 15, 2011 Last spring, Stemilt Growers became an early adopter of mobile marketing through its use of mobile websites that […]
Apple Growers And Grocers Team Up To Fight Cancer By Growing Produce Staff|March 7, 2011 New York apple growers, on behalf of 41 participating supermarket chains, have donated $25,000 to the American Cancer […]
Kevin Moffitt Appointed President Of World Apple and Pear Association By Growing Produce Staff|February 22, 2011 Kevin Moffitt, president and CEO of Pear Bureau Northwest, has been named president of the World Apple and […]
New York Apple Leader Defends State IPM Program By Growing Produce Staff|February 7, 2011 Jim Allen, president of the New York Apple Association, recently wrote a commentary defending Cornell University’s Integrated Pest […]
