The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced June 20 that it temporarily suspended enforcement of its 2024 Farmworker Protection Rule, effective immediately. The rule faced numerous ...

Moderately sized, regional grocery chains have the dexterity to market small volumes of new fruit. Yoke’s Fresh Market can ...

Northwest cherry growers depending on local labor began harvest with low crew turnout as workers report fears of immigration ...

Both counties currently grow a lot of the same crops. Some of the diseases are the same, too, such as blueberry anthracnose.

Visiting viticulturist from Australia shares strategies for sustainable grape growing by embracing functional biodiversity.

The family’s processing varieties include Idared, Crispin, Rome, Empire and Golden Delicious. Bob said all varieties are ...

Dennis Carlton, de Smallwood Farms, en el condado de Okanogan, Washington, ha tomado prestadas unas ideas para el cultivo de ...

The BC Tree Fruits logo will be resurrected this season by a new investment partnership between a British Columbia real ...

Planting parameters for various commercially available cherry rootstocks. (Source: L.E. Long/from “Sweet Cherries”) Lynn Long, a retired Oregon State University Extension horticulturist and co-author ...

A Stemilt Growers crew harvests apples by night on motorized platforms in 2014 near Quincy, Washington, just to try it out. However, the record-setting 2021 heat wave made nighttime fruit harvest more ...

It starts with winter pruning. They want short limbs on their Honeycrisp trees, for greater sunlight penetration. By spring, they’re dialing in crop load. They aim for 150 to 180 buds per Honeycrisp ...

Successful codling moth control results from growers and pest consultants putting together many pieces. The leaders of a recently formed codling moth task force believe that understanding this big ...