Survey Reaffirms Good Vineyard Workers Are Hard To Find

Too bad more of the residue from California’s bountiful winter can’t be stored.

The era of HLB has some thinking about alternative crops.

Rising fertilizer costs and increased incidence of bitter pit topped the list of 2022 production challenges.

Disease, cold weather, market prices temper industry optimism.

Producers turn a profit through direct-to-consumer sales while also turning their farms into destination points.

This year’s American Fruit Grower State of the Industry survey took a half-dozen current risks to profit and asked our grower readers to rank them.

The millions of ‘trees planted in Washington over the past several years are not viewed favorably by other growers around the country.

Exceptionally bad weather kept growers on their toes throughout the growing season.

Between 60% and 70% of growers who bank on biological controls and precision agriculture express satisfaction with their purchases.

Producers spent 2022 battling many nuisances, including fire blight, spotted wing drosophila, birds, and deer. Some succeeded. Some didn’t.