Kate PrengamanMaking optimum storage decisions for a warehouse full of apples or pears involves taking lots of samples to ...

Research has long established that UV light kills microbes. It’s now a matter of figuring out how to incorporate it ...

Large, high-quality cherries make a block profitable, even if producing them is expensive. Training limbs, renewing branches and harvesting all cost money, but doing those things well help growers ...

This chart highlights the percentage of U.S. apples, cherries and pears exported to Mexico from 2012 to 2024. (Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service; Graphic: Jared ...

How did you get your start? When I started, I was 20 years old and I did a lot of general labor, which is bagging, sorting, writing up tickets, driving forklift, making boxes, unloading trucks and ...

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 ...

Administrators of Northwest Cherries told growers Jan. 10 at the 82nd annual Cherry Institute in Yakima, Washington, that the 2024 season was successful in shipping and promotions, a welcome bright ...

In October 2022, Crist Bros Orchards received a letter in the mail from the New York Public Employment Relations Board. The letter stated that Crist Bros employees had voted to unionize, and that the ...

Low juice grape prices went even lower. After cash prices for many Washington Concord grapes plummeted in 2023, they dropped further for the 2024 harvest, said Trent Ball of Yakima Valley College.