Apples & Pears
The process is more complex in fruit crops than in others, but new strategies look promising.
Regional growers pleased with 2022 crop.
Region’s entire pear crop estimated to be slightly up year-over-year.
Estimate translates to 1.7% decrease year over year.
Laura Tisch, a mother of five, has wasted no time turning her Munchkey Apples into a thriving business.
When science, innovation, and agriculture come together, fruitful things can happen.
Producers welcomed 2021 with open arms. Freeze events and an unheard-of heat wave tempered much of that optimism.
Michigan State University researchers and Dutch tech companies collaborate to demonstrate the potential of precision innovation in the orchard.
Best practices include safer insecticides and someday soon maybe trap trees.
As Pacific Northwest growers learned last summer, orchards can only get so hot before there’s no safe place for their fruit.
Nominee Doug McKalip has frequently worked with the organization.
The annual event is scheduled for Aug. 18-19 in Chicago.
However, the state’s 656 million pounds still ranked third in the U.S.
Root-2-Fruit researchers identify the ideal rootstocks for the bitter pit-prone variety.
Science is a lot more reliable — and teachable — for optimum fruit production.
Growers say pandemic-related supply interruptions make planning more important than ever.
No matter how you slice it, this farm in the PNW is a success story.
Third-generation grower from Pennsylvania was 41.
Cardboard nest tubes reduce the infestation of kleptoparasitic mites in nest cavities of European orchard bee.