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Over-the-vine fogging to mitigate heat stress in wine grape vineyard

Tarara: Heat mitigation for wine grapes

August 11, 2026

An illustration of AgWeatherNet data on a phone app

Weather, wherever and whenever wanted

August 3, 2026

Paige Hake, left, and her father, Orlin Knutson, in their organic Chelan cherry block in Mattawa, Washington. Hake is one of several participants in a Northwest Cherry Growers campaign that highlights women in the cherry industry and ties into the United Nations’ designation of 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Patrick: Sustainability and celebration

May 14, 2026

Members of the HiRes Vineyard Nutrition project at their final team meeting in May 2025 at the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory in Portland, New York. The research team will share findings from the five-year project in June during the American Society for Enology and Viticulture annual meeting. (Courtesy Donnell Brown)

Brown: Nourishing innovations

March 30, 2026

Oregon State University’s Andony Melathopoulos, left, and Susan Sokol Blosser of Sokol Blosser Winery in Dundee, Oregon, check on a honey bee hive as part of a pollination research project supported by the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program. (Courtesy Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education)

Clary: Farmer-focused funding

March 16, 2026

Elizabeth Tomasino, pictured here at the Oregon State University smoke research lab in Corvallis in 2021, will share her findings on consumer perception of smoke damage in wines at the upcoming Washington Advancements in Viticulture and Enology, or WAVE, event to be held in Richland, Washington, on April 22. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Tarara: Smoke signals

March 16, 2026

Dininny: Member model

March 2, 2026

Washington State University Extension’s Tianna DuPont, right, coaches Chad Blackburn on where to make the cut on a fire blight-infected shoot during a fire blight field day hosted by WSU at its Columbia Reach research farm in 2024. The pathology research block had plenty of shoot blight for attendees to practice on, as DuPont shared the importance of cutting promptly and aggressively to limit spread. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower)

DuPont: Fire blight findings

February 17, 2026

New findings from Washington State University show that while systemic insecticide programs keep populations of grape mealybugs, Pseudococcus maritimus, low, they can’t actually prevent transmission of grapevine leafroll disease. (Courtesy USDA Agricultural Research Service)

Tarara: New tools for grape growers

February 3, 2026

The Washington Winegrowers Association’s annual WineVit Convention and Trade Show in Kennewick, Washington, provides opportunity for the industry to collaborate and celebrate, as seen at last year’s leadership lunch. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Higgins: Resilience and innovation

January 20, 2026