October 2010

Keeping the customer satisfied

Eugene Kupferman, Washington State University, Wenatchee

Farmworker becomes WINERY OWNER

Melissa Hansen

Lofty goals

Melissa Hansen

Last Bite - Exponential growth

John Baule of the Yakima Valley Museum

WSU releases second new apple, called WA 5

Steps to commercialization

Geraldine Warner

Low-volume prestorage drenching is attractive

Richard Lehnert

Ripe cherries are less likely to pit

Geraldine Warner

Gearing up for a new season

For apple growers and marketers, marketing of the new crop kicks off in August. More than 300 of them gather just off the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Chicago in mid-August to get all the crop statistics together and start to think about volumes, quality, and pricing.

Richard Lehnert

The apple world in 2020

A panel of experts took a look ahead of what the apple industry might be like in 2020, ten years from now.

Richard Lehnert

Mysterious ailment strikes

Richard Lehnert

Totally RED

Swiss breeder Markus Kobelt releases red-fleshed apple varieties

Geraldine Warner

The next ­generation

Young fruit growers are organizing themselves into groups and facing the realization that they need to prepare to take over from their parents.

Richard Lehnert

Future Fruit Growers of Lake Ontario, young farmers, New York young farmers,

Growers tackle ­onerous stinkbug

Richard Lehnert

Is drosophila a Washington State resident?

Geraldine Warner

In the Box

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