June 2025 Issue

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June 2025 — Digital Issue

March 20, 2026

Table grapes with a twist

June 26, 2025

Overhead sprinklers rinse away pear psylla honeydew in a Leavenworth, Washington, orchard in June 2023. This grower is washing the best way, using sprinklers above the canopy and starting early in the season, according to research into best practices. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

How to wash a pear tree

June 24, 2025

Just a handful of Moxxi apples, a new variety from Stemilt Growers, await buyers in March at Yoke’s Fresh Market in Pasco, Washington. Limited quantities and strategic store placement characterize releases of new cultivars in this depressed apple economy. In the background sits Lemonade apples, a specialty variety from Giumarra. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

New apples in small volumes and small stores

June 18, 2025

Agricultural climate creep

June 17, 2025

Australian EcoVineyards consultant Mary Retallack demonstrates her insect sampling technique, which uses a butterfly net attached to a funnel that leads to a sample jar, at Hedges Family Estate during a tour of vineyards on Red Mountain, Washington, in April. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower)

EcoVineyards inspiration for Eastern Washington

June 12, 2025

A high-density block of processing apples in the foreground, with freestanding processing plantings in the background, at Ned Morgan’s farm in Western New York in August 2022. Morgan is experimenting with high-density plantings for processing. (Matt Milkovich/Good Fruit Grower)

Processing perseverance

June 11, 2025

Here comes the Sunflare apple

June 5, 2025

Washington State University cherry breeder Per McCord counts and measures the stamens of an R19 cherry blossom in April at the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center near Prosser. As the university prepares to release the cherry for commercial production, McCord’s team is documenting the intricacies of plant and fruit characteristics as required to apply for intellectual property protection. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Newest cherry cultivars get ready to grow

June 5, 2025

Screenshots of Good Fruit Grower's websites in English and Spanish

Dininny: Website refresh

June 3, 2025