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2018 Outlook
Featured stories covering the 2018 outlook in this issue.
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Bringing antique apples back to market
Michigan grower finds niche with abundance of heritage varieties.
Growing big with Genevas
Third-year Washington trial offers new insight into cropping capabilities.
Going green with reds and whites
Will the investment in eco-certification for your vineyard pay off? It depends.
Plight of the Concords
Juice grape prices inching up, but acreage decline continues.
All aboard the cherry express
Airborne exports through Sea-Tac help make up for tough domestic year for sweet cherries.
Want to get in on organics?
Grower Rick Orozco describes the benefits of regular cultivation with a wonder weeder to attendees on a WSU NextGen Grower field day on transitioning
It’s boom time for organics
Washington’s organic apple growers adding 10,000 new acres in just a few years.
A cool place for cherry exports
New facility to improve cherry movement through Sea-Tac.
Conner Sullivan, a young grower from Pasco, Washington
family background / Conner along with his cousin Clint Sullivan started their business after growing up learning agriculture from their grandfather, Robert, and
Three Cornell ag researchers retire
Three faculty members from Cornell University’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station have retired. Together, they represent 91 years of experience in research at Cornell.
Bankers share financial tips for growers
“A lot of our business is sharing knowledge,” says Ken Ballard of Northwest Farm Credit Services in Yakima, Washington. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)
Kurrle: USApple works for growers
Trade agreements, farm bill likely targets for 2018.
Bryant: Troubling signs on trade
With talk of tariffs and ending NAFTA, the apple industry must use defense, data and offense to protect exports.
Growing by the acres
Results from Washington state questionnaire help paint picture of shifting fruit industry.