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Summer Fruits
Featured stories covering summer fruits appear in this issue.
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Scientists work on paper-wasp lure
Though often confused with yellowjackets, paper wasps do not respond to the same bait.
Plums have a summer market niche
Plums have a summer market niche but few growers have them.
How to grow Cosmic Crisp
WA 38 is grower friendly and should present minimal harvesting, storage, or packing problems.
New peach textures
Future breeders have the tools to make ideal peaches.
Trees in a sandbox
Peach growing practices transformed by solid California research
A complete listing of 2014 summer events
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IFORED expands
Two new partners have joined an international consortium that was formed to launch and commercialize new red-fleshed apple varieties. With the addition of Red Apple
Prairie cherries available
Dear Good Fruit Grower:
Quick test for little cherry virus
The latest products and services for tree fruit and grape growers.
Packer adds packing capacity
The latest products and services for tree fruit and grape growers.
Leaf removal benefits
Early leaf removal could change cluster structure; late can delay ripening
Holtzinger Fruit adds staff
Industry people in the news
Stone fruit farm stay
Mike and Nori Naylor, and Henny the farm dog, relax on the porch of their farm stay. (Melissa Hansen/Good Fruit Grower) Mike and
Organic Pioneer
Mike Naylor has grown organic stone fruit for 30 years.
More than cherries
These red and green plastic molds are berry baggers, a device patented by O-G Packing. The molds come in three sizes and reduce the
Peaches inhibit breast cancer
Scientists found that consumption of peach polyphenolics slowed tumor growth.
Low chill hurts California cherry crop
Lack of winter tule fog impacted fruit set.