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Canned pear service lowers budget, keeps promotions

April 23, 2026
Arran Rumbaugh, a U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher, discusses what viticulture researchers have learned about the ways wildfire smoke affects the taste of wine at the WAVE/Ravenholt seminar on April 22 at the Washington State University Tri-Cities campus in Richland. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

WSU seminar covers the science of wildfire smoke and wine grapes

April 22, 2026
When grower Jim Baird removes an orchard, he chips the wood and discs it into the soil to boost soil health for whatever comes next. In this case, an aged-out block of Aztec Fuji makes way in March for new cherry trees at his Othello, Washington, farm. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Invest in rest for your orchard

April 22, 2026
Chelsea Durfey Campbell discusses how her family’s Sunnyside orchard has connected irrigation, soil moisture and microclimate sensors to a Washington State University AgWeatherNet dashboard through LoRaWAN in December at the Washington State Tree Fruit Association Annual Meeting in Wenatchee. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Democratizing technology for farms large and small

April 13, 2026
A MyLand algae treatment tank fertigates a Honeycrisp block in May 2025 at a Washington Orchard Management farm near Royal City, Washington. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Elevating soil algae

April 10, 2026
Grape growers facing a season without buyers for their fruit can cut back on irrigation and pruning to keep vines viable without cropping them. In this idled Mercer Ranches Syrah block near Alderdale, Washington, shown in February, viticulture director Richard Hoff (at right) intentionally lowered the blades of the prepruning machine, almost to the cordon, and will not bother sending a crew to hand prune afterward, as he normally would. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Hitting pause on a vineyard

April 9, 2026
A young Top Shelf blueberry bush grows in a precision device called a weighing lysimeter in 2023 at a U.S. Department of Agriculture research site in Corvallis, Oregon. Lysimeters measure changes in plant weight to determine evapotranspiration, which researchers use to build crop coefficients for precision irrigation. (Courtesy Dave Bryla/U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Watering blueberries by the numbers

April 6, 2026
Trunk diseases spread slowly, eventually stopping the grapevine from growing and giving the growers their first clue of a problem, years after infection. (Courtesy José Ramón Úrbez-Torres/Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Take action on trunk diseases

March 27, 2026
Antonio Mendoza, left, and Antonio dela Torre prune Coral Champagne cherries in mid-February from a platform at Finley Cherries near Benton City, Washington. They intentionally let the cuttings pile up on the platform structure, to make it easier to remove them for mulching. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Everything but harvest

March 27, 2026
Washington wine company owners Drew Bledsoe and Court Wyckoff, at right, discuss the future of the state’s industry in mid-February at the annual WineVit conference and trade show in Kennewick. (TJ/Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Winemakers advised to make for the middle

March 24, 2026