Handle Geneva 41 with care
Popular G.41 rootstock takes extra work, but can succeed.
USDA extends labor housing program to growers putting up H-2A workers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture administrates loans and grants designed to employers who build or improve housing for farmworkers, but they had always been restricted to U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
WSU reveals its wild cider
Students start cider apple breeding program to learn techniques.
Mexico slaps tariffs on U.S. apples
Country's largest apple export market retaliates over steel and aluminum tariffs.
Plans within plants
Managing sheer number of samples, volume of data is focus for breeding program.
Post-Cosmic question: What’s next?
With launch of WA 38 underway, WSU’s apple breeding program hopes to build on successes.
Cherries chugging to China again
Cherry shipments to China seem to be moving again, just in time for the Northwest’s annual harvest.
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Trade disputes broaden
U.S. fruit growers, already burdened with new tariffs from China, now have to deal with duties from Mexico.
The Mexican government
Growing at a high level
Planting 60 percent Lapins. Wrapping trunks with insulation. Expecting some trees to die every year. Growing cherries at 2,500 feet
In case of smoke, take quick action
Wine grape growers should keep insurance in mind if they see smoke on the horizon this year.
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