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Cherry tours highlight innovations

Training systems, rootstocks, mulches, and mechanization were on the agendas of cherry tours in Washington and Oregon.

Geraldine Warner

Grape field day hightlights research

Growers seek ways to keep vineyard costs down with no-prune methods and field grafting.

Melissa Hansen

Mechanizing orchards in Italy

Melissa Hansen

WA 2 on view

Washington State University scheduled two field days this fall for growers to see and taste its new variety at harvest.

WSU research vineyard hosts tour

Washington State University's new research orchard provides enough space for research to be followed from field to bottle.

Melissa Hansen

WSU research field day

The university's Sunrise Orchard serves as a living laboratory for scientists who are working to solve practical problems for the tree fruit industry.

Geraldine Warner

Apple flea weevils star at organic field day

Apple flea weevils hijacked the agenda at the Organic Tree Fruit Association’s first official field day at Earth First Farm in Michigan.

Richard Lehnert

New mechanical thinner

Washington State University researchers discussed their new hand-held mechanical thinner during a recent cherry field day.

Geraldine Warner

Touring the Ridge

Associate editor Richard Lehnert joined International Fruit Tree Association members on a tour of Michigan's Fruit Ridge.

By Richard Lehnert

Cherry tour in Argentina

The state of Mendoza in northern Argentina, which is world renown for its Malbec wines, is also the country’s main and earliest cherry growing region.

by Geraldine Warner