July 2025 Issue

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July 2025 — Digital Issue

March 20, 2026

The Deniz family, cling peach growers in Oakdale, California, built their own shake-and-catch mechanical harvester, complete with leaf blowers, shown here during the 2024 harvest in July. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Peach farm movers and shakers

July 29, 2025

Felix Schuhmann, a student from Germany who interned with Hanrahan Orchards and the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission in 2017, trenches for irrigation lines in preparation for a Cosmic Crisp planting in Zillah, Washington. Schuhmann is one of over 100 interns hosted by the research commission or on the Hanrahan family farm, through a mentorship program inspired by personal experience, said Ines Hanrahan, executive director of the research commission. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Breaking ground for interns in the tree fruit industry

July 23, 2025

Michigan State University doctoral student Abby Krent collects root tissue samples for microbial testing, part of an MSU project studying blueberry replant problems in Michigan fields. (Courtesy Josh Vander Weide/Michigan State University)

Getting to the root of replant problems

July 22, 2025

McKinley Springs Winery receives a load of Merlot grapes in October at the facility formerly known as 14 Hands in Prosser, Washington. McKinley Springs purchased the production facilities from Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, which drastically reduced its volume the past two years. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

New opportunities for Washington wine grapes

July 17, 2025

New Pear Bureau Northwest President CarrieAnn Arias, pictured third from left below the screen, shares the success of marketing campaigns in Canada in partnership with two registered dietitians, Elis Halenko and Christina Iobani, during a presentation to the board on promotional activities at the bureau’s annual meeting in Yakima, Washington, on May 14. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower)

Plans to promote pears

July 15, 2025

Workers size a sample of an incoming grower lot of cherries at a Columbia Fruit Packers facility in Wenatchee, Washington, in 2024. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Regulatory roadblock for revising cherry standards

July 10, 2025

Large, 105-ounce cans wait to be filled at the Del Monte Foods cannery in Yakima, Washington, in November. As retail demand for canned fruit continues to decline, Del Monte closed the facility in May. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Canning contraction for Northwest pear industry

July 8, 2025

Mechanical blossom thinning of peaches at Lewis Farm in New Era, Michigan, on May 12. Attached to a forklift tractor, the Peach Blossom Thinner, manufactured by Phil Brown Welding, rotates ropes to knock blossoms off the trees. Grower Scott Lewis said crews follow with hand-thinning of fruitlets later in the season. (Matt Milkovich/Good Fruit Grower)

Palmetto State peach patrons

July 3, 2025

From a single image such as this one, at left, of a Honeycrisp taken in July 2022, the app will measure fruit surface temperature, center, and fruit color development, right. (Courtesy Nipun Thennakoon/Washington State University)

AI targeting Honeycrisp heat stress — Video

July 1, 2025