Controlled atmosphere storage refers to a suite of practices regulating levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature and ...

David Rudell, a research plant physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Wenatchee, gave the crowd a few best ...

To get the right combination of cold resistance and coveted wine flavor, Plocher and other breeders cross North America’s ...

Julianna Wilson had tales to tell about the spotted wing drosophila, the invasive fruit fly that’s become a major pest of ...

Over the past 10 years, U.S. shippers of apples, cherries and pears have increasingly relied on their southern neighbor to ...

The new year kicked off with some new alignments in the Washington tree fruit industry, following the closure of the Sage ...

Wood has been ground-harvesting cider apples by hand for more than three decades. He knows a handful of other growers in the ...

Under the hot South African sun, quick cooling is critical to protect the quality of plums that face a monthlong journey to reach consumers in Europe. Fruit2U Packers, a stone fruit, table grape and ...

Several years ago, grower Jason Matson started to wonder if the decay problems Matson Fruit was dealing with could be caused by cross-contamination from the recirculating fungicide drencher at his ...

“We have reached the stage of critical mass, meaning that we now have year-round volume,” said Kevin Brandt, vice president ...

As they do every year, tree fruit growers and industry officials will visit Olympia next week to bend the ear of Washington lawmakers on issues they consider critical.