No ban on small cherries
Committee decides not to eliminate 12-row red cherries.
Who will market WA 38?
Growers will be free to work with their regular packers and marketers and WSU will license them.
Don’t give Honeycrisp away
Growers must deliver quality and marketers must hold out for high prices.
Alternatives for disease control
Chitosan not only reduces decay but induces resistance in the plant.
Improving cherry quality
Yan Wang will test whether preharvest salt applications can reduce cherry pitting and splitting after harvest.
Tips for storing Honeycrisp
As volumes increase, Honeycrisp will need to be stored longer.
Retail sales of sliced apples continue to soar
A partnership with Disney resulted in 18 percent of Crunch Pak’s business being in Disney-labeled products. (Courtesy Crunch Pak.)
Pear slicing is not perfected yet
Crunch Pak, the country’s largest fresh apple slicer, is still figuring out how best to slice pears.
Fruit ripening compounds discovered
The compounds might solve ripening problems in pears treated with MCP.
Ripe pears mean more sales
Few consumers know how to check a pear for ripeness.