Export funding increase unlikely
Todd Fryhover, president of the Washington Apple Commission, is concerned about a possible decrease in federal funding for export promotions.
WA 2 traits, evaluation and commercialization
The evaluation and commercialization process Phase 1: Initial seedling selection and evaluation by WSU Phase 2: Small-scale on-farm trials
WA 2 ready for commercial plantings
Washington growers can now obtain licenses to plant WA 2 on a commercial basis. WA 2 is the first apple
Good Job
John Carter crowned king The Dalles, Oregon, cherry grower John Carter was named 2010 Cherry King during the annual Cherry
Washington’s grape disease worries grow
Symptoms of grape fanleaf disease (shown on the leaf on the left) include vein banding and yellowing, possibly resembling herbicide-damaged
Last Bite — Discovering Gold
Top: The russet-resistant Smoothee, discovered in 1958, is the widest planted strain of Golden Delicious in the United States. (Photo
Resistant rootstocks key to surviving fireblight
Within the next two years, Cornell University plant pathologist Herb Aldwinckle hopes scientists and the tree fruit nurseries will have
Tackling scab resistance
Apple growers in the Midwest who stuck by the “old ways” of applying fungicides have not faced the problem of
Scab-resistant varieties need protection, too
When apple breeders in New Jersey, Indiana, and Illinois came together in 1926 to form the Purdue-Rutgers-Illinois university collaboration called