Pedestrian orchards studied
Pedestrian orchards offer potentially significant savings in labor costs for California’s stone fruit growers, but industry officials have never evaluated
Training trees to be short
University of California Cooperative Extension’s Kevin Day, a proponent of growing shorter stone fruit trees, has helped numerous growers lower
Last Bite
Rumor has it there is also a Stars label although no one remembers seeing one. Lloyd Garretson was one of
California FOCUS
California’s tree fruit industry, like other growing regions, has experienced a multitude of challenges in recent years, including smaller crops
Growing high-density cherries
This slender spindle orchard system produced high yields early in the orchard’s life because of minimal early pruning.There are many
Let there be light
Some fruit-growing regions have big advantages over other areas, and one of those advantages is light, according to Dr. Dave
In my view
Recently, the newspaper carried an Associated Press story covering top concerns aired by Washington State potato growers and processors as
First Bite
California, with its moderate climate and water availability, has long been the fruit bowl of America, producing nearly all types
Evaluating Nondestructive Firmness Detectors for Pears
The firmness of pears is used as a harvest indicator and to help track ripening of the fruit in wholesale
Short trees reduce labor costs
Photo, this page: Early variety peach trees at Enns Packing were mechanically topped after harvest (around the second week of