Pesticides

Put a ghost in your orchard to keep away BMSB

March 14, 2018

Lures lead to better moth management

March 14, 2018

Apple maggot quarantine saves $500 million a year

March 9, 2018

More good mites wanted this year

March 5, 2018

Resistance rising for powdery mildew

February 26, 2018

Flor Servin of the Washington Department of Labor and Industries demonstrates personal protective equipment use on Adolfo Meza at a pesticide decontamination training in 2015. New federal worker protection standards require annual training for workers and handlers. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Registration opens for February pesticide handlers course

January 17, 2018

Grower Rick Orozco describes the benefits of regular cultivation with a wonder weeder to attendees on a WSU NextGen Grower field day on transitioning to organic production at his HiPoint Orchards near Pasco, Washington on August 3, 2017. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower)

Want to get in on organics?

January 9, 2018

Margaret McCoy, a Washington State University graduate student studying spray technologies, shows a collection of used, rusted disc-core nozzles, the kind often found in a growers’ shop. (Shannon Dininny/Good Fruit Grower)

Yes, your spray nozzles need to be replaced on a regular basis.

December 27, 2017

Food Safety Act - FDA

“They are there to find something wrong with you.”

December 27, 2017

Michigan State University entomologist Matt Grieshop explains how to optimize airblast sprayer performance for organic fruit growers during a session at the Great Lakes Fruit and Vegetable and Farm Market Expo in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on December 7, 2017. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower)

GLExpo Day 3 wrap: using plant growth regulators for flowering, fruit set, and other aspects of physiology

December 7, 2017