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McKinley Springs Winery receives a load of Merlot grapes in October at the facility formerly known as 14 Hands in Prosser, Washington. McKinley Springs purchased the production facilities from Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, which drastically reduced its volume the past two years. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

New opportunities for Washington wine grapes

July 17, 2025

Washington workers sue Tree Top for rest break violations

July 16, 2025
Rong Hu, a technician in the University of California, Davis Foundation Plant Services laboratory, prepares a sample for genetic screening for both viruses and true-to-type verification. This year, the lab began requiring that customers who seek verification provide a “voucher,” a known reference sample, up front before the laboratory spends two or more years on propagation and virus testing. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

One Big Beautiful Bill contains tree fruit wins

July 9, 2025
From a single image such as this one, at left, of a Honeycrisp taken in July 2022, the app will measure fruit surface temperature, center, and fruit color development, right. (Courtesy Nipun Thennakoon/Washington State University)

AI targeting Honeycrisp heat stress — Video

July 1, 2025

Cornerstone Ranches responds to Washington state’s H-2A discrimination lawsuit

June 25, 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
Chelan cherries gleam in the sunshine just after picking in early June in a Yakima Valley, Washington, orchard. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Pickers, fearing ICE rumors, avoid Northwest cherry harvest

June 16, 2025
Pier Filippo Tagliani of Italy holds two WA 64 apples in October at the research farm during a tour led by International New-Varieties Network, contracted by WSU to commercialize the apple under the brand name Sunflare. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

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