March 15, 2015

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Crop Management and Pollination

Featured stories covering managing tree fruit and grape pests appear in this issue.

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Exports benefit B.C. cherry growers

Cherries give fruit flies a boost

Annual losses from grape leafroll virus

Is ‘Grape Virus Tax’ hitting your pocketbook?

Kym Green Bush

The seven cherry training systems

California expects a moderate cherry crop

Packers join forces

New AVA established in Oregon

Understanding soil organic matter

Few bees in vineyards

Growers urged to join stewardship project

Lanternfly targeted for eradication

O'Rourke: Apple prices will force efficiencies

A model for apple thinning

Antibiotic registered for fire blight control

Stress-free thinning

Take the guesswork out of thinning

Fine growth regulator receives EPA approval

Biennial pear congress to begin this year in Italy

Netting was applied to whole trees and single limbs to exclude bees for the mechanical pollination study. Pollen was applied mechanically through the netting to flowers opening inside.(Courtesy Matt Whiting/Washington State University)

Precision pollination

Bees as flying doctors

Breeding better bees

Marcus Morgan (with Miss Blue) on January 23, 2015 in The Dalles, Oregon. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Marcus Morgan, Young Grower from The Dalles, Oregon

What should growers do before the piece rate ruling?

Millions of dollars at stake in piece-rate case

Satellite imagery updated

Companion has organic listing

Plum lucky—twice

Portable tester measures sugar, color, and maturity

FMC releases biofungicide

Richard Lehnert of Good Fruit Grower earns MSU distinguished service award

Crab apple pruning demos

Leah Eddie, Young Grower from Grandview, Washington