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Kate Evans shows one of the program's new seedlings and a page from the cross breeding "cull" sheets she and her staff use when moving plant material through the Washington State University pome fruit breeding system in Wenatchee, Washington, on Monday, April 23, 2018. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Plans within plants

June 5, 2018

Putting Gisela to the test

May 23, 2018

Growers facing dilemma over drifting sprays

May 9, 2018

Researchers finish final pollen tube model

March 29, 2018
Young Geneva 41 rootstock propagated at Helios Nursery in McMinnville, Oregon, on September 15, 2016. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

The good and bad of different rootstocks

February 12, 2018
The Cherry Express plane arrives at the cargo departures area of SeaTac airport in Seattle, Washington, on July 12, 2017, to take fresh cherries to the Chinese market, while other Northwest cherries bound for Korea, right, are staged for loading. Eight international cargo flights were packaged and loaded from the neutral apron loading areas at SeaTac scheduled for markets across Asia. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

All aboard the cherry express

January 11, 2018

It’s boom time for organics

January 9, 2018
Omeg stands in one of his blocks of cherries — he owns 330 acres in the northern Oregon hills east of the Cascade Mountains. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

An Oregon trailblazer: 2017 Grower of the Year

November 30, 2017
Omeg talks with other growers about his "mow and blow" mulching results during an Oregon State University soils workshop in March 2017. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

A grower with industry influence: 2017 Grower of the Year

November 30, 2017
Mike Omeg spent two years planning this 25-acre trellis system. He doesn’t expect to recoup his costs for at least five more years. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Omeginsanity: 2017 Grower of the Year

November 30, 2017