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Vineyard manager Nick Mackay, center, and vineyard foreman Enrique Moreno, left, discuss pruning and tying strategies with new crew boss Luis Ruelas, while workers wait for instructions at Mercer Canyons in Alderdale, Washington, in March. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Prepare new leaders for success

May 7, 2017
Sweetheart cherries being harvested for processing during the IFTA Washington tour in Selah, Washington on July, 2015. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Round One estimate of new cherry crop: 21.8 million 20-pound boxes

May 4, 2017
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WSDA to dedicate state-of-the-art greenhouse

May 2, 2017
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)

EPA tightens workplace rules

May 2, 2017
D’Anjou pears from the 2015 harvest being packed in Peshastin, Washington. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower file photo)

Cost falls to renew pear scald chemical

April 26, 2017
Bottles of cider are displayed at Leonard Oakes Estate Winery in Lyndonville, New York, along with an ad marketing a sense of regional flavor. Experts suggest apple growers embrace their regional differences to capitalize on the surging growth of the market the same way grape growers market wines tied to the complex terroir of different regions in the wine industry. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Cider makers embrace regional variation

April 26, 2017
Yarrow, a native flowering plant, grows between trial vineyard rows at Washington State University's Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser, Washington. Native plants in and around vineyards and orchards attract beneficial insects such as pollinators and predators, James said. (Courtesy David James)

Native flora can attract beneficial insects to the vineyards and orchards

April 25, 2017

WSU’s continuing search for endowed chair of soil science

April 21, 2017
Lamont Fruit Farm in Waterport, New York, installed drip line irrigation in some new plantings as a drought precaution as seen in June last year. Irrigation is becoming more of a necessity in the Northeastern United States, a fruit growing area that once relied solely on rainfall. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Northeastern growers are coming around to the idea of irrigating

April 17, 2017

I-9 form gets ‘smart’

April 17, 2017