Apple Lines
China is the single largest market in the world with 1.3 billion consumers and double-digit growth in its gross
In The Box
Future Good Fruit Grower of the Year?Kai Phelan Hanrahan gets an early taste of the fruit-growing business, encountering his first
NZ orchardists aim for carbon neutrality
The New Zealand apple industry, which exports more than 80 percent of its crop, is trying to turn attention from
Calculating the carbon footprint
It would be a good idea for the tree fruit industries of Washington and Oregon to calculate how they stack
How warming will affect grapes
The effects of climate change on Washington State's wine grape industry are likely to be mixed, with some viticultural areas
Northwest table grapes
Ray Ethell, left, and OVS crop consultant Jeff Flake discuss the open-gable trellis system, on which grape clusters are more
Table grapes thrive in Idaho
Dr. Esmaeil Fallahi, a founder of the Idaho table grape industry, has tested many different varieties. Idaho has a burgeoning
Working together for kids
Aricely Vargas in playground slide at EPIC in Sunnyside, Washington. Tree fruit employers, both growers and packing house owners, have
EQIP funds ease cash flow
Aristeo Maldonado of Tonasket, Washington, received EQIP funds to update his irrigation system. When apple prices tumbled in 1998, just
Cherry industries collaborate
Sweet cherry industries in the Pacific Northwest and California may be a thousand miles apart, but they have much in