How This Crop Protection Solution Is Like ‘Putting on a Coat’ for Cold-Sensitive Crops

Continuing to learn and share stone fruit info, whether actively or from the sidelines, columnist Gregory Lang is moving on.

Food keys the good life in Italy. Participants of special industry event find a country where farmers’ produce is treasured.

With a focus on flavor, CEO Andy Higgins is excited about constructing a campus for breeders in the San Joaquin Valley.

First-year trees give the cherry-growing community something to get excited about.

However, the state’s 656 million pounds still ranked third in the U.S.

As Pacific Northwest researchers march toward long-term management, wild parasitoids have already arrived in Washington state.

Cherry growers, plagued by X-disease, can turn to insecticides and particle films to fight vectors.

Climate-related changes, both significant and subtle, continue to affect fruit growers.

Michigan, the Midwest fruit production powerhouse that’s home to the ‘Motor City,’ may be throttling down on some fronts but is revved about what’s ahead.

The precise development and simplification of fruiting units results in the most efficient canopy structure for harvest.

Refraining from Groups 11 and 3 fungicides may preserve them for future use.

The heat has been so intense that it melted streetcar wires in the cities, and it seems to be damaging crops like raspberries as well.

Orchardists can learn a few things by looking at the wild side of tree fruit.

‘Sweet Cherries,’ co-authored by American Fruit Grower and Western Fruit Grower columnist Gregory Lang, caters to both new growers and seasoned pros.

Survey responses stress the importance to do the ripe thing.

The question remains: Why haven’t more growers turned to orchards that are more readily harvested from the ground?

Learn more about what turned out to be a sweet accident for one Washington State grower.

Tree fruit versions of robotic house vacuums and lawnmowers will soon simplify life for growers.

Veteran grower advises building homes for barn owls, the “perfect gopher-killing machines.”