Water

Kalcsits named endowed chair for tree fruit environmental physiology and management at WSU

February 26, 2021

Weather events make farming riskier and harder

February 3, 2021

Underground delivery goes to market

October 29, 2020

Improving irrigation improves pear profits — Video

August 28, 2020

Soil pits get the view from below — Video

May 4, 2020

Seeing things in a different light

April 15, 2020

Size class shifts tell the story: Deficit irrigation during the summer works to reduce bitter pit incidence in Honeycrisp by shifting the size classes harvested from 38 percent fruit in box size 56 or lower to 24 percent. Box size 80 fruit increased from 14 percent to 32 percent. Since larger fruit are more prone to bitter pit, this shift in the size class of the harvest reduces the overall rates of bitter pit in the crop, said Lee Kalcsits, Washington State University physiologist. The positive results shown are for middle- and late-summer water stress, lasting about a month long, but early-season deficits did not show benefits. (Source: Lee Kalcsits/Washington State University, Graphic: Jared Johnson/Good Fruit Grower)

Stress for success with Honeycrisp

April 9, 2020

Irrigation insights

April 9, 2020

How well is your water?

April 8, 2020

Renewed research in the Rogue Valley

November 27, 2019