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The French National Institute for Agricultural Research, INRA, has released four new wine grape cultivars that are resistant to powdery mildew and downy mildew, offering growers the chance to reduce fungicide applications from more than a dozen a year to just a couple. Their listing in the Official French Catalogue, which does not include traditional French-American hybrids, suggests a new opportunity for breeders to solve problems facing the traditional, esteemed wine cultivars. (Photos courtesy INRA)

Giving tradition a nudge in the vineyard

July 10, 2019
Duckwall Fruit current company staff stands outside their facility in Odell, Oregon, and a new mural celebrating the company’s 100 years of business in the Hood River Valley. (Courtesy Blaine Franger for Duckwall Fruit)

Duckwall Fruit celebrates 100 years

July 3, 2019

Growing fluent in flavor

July 3, 2019

Prengaman: Yearn to learn

July 1, 2019
Cosmic Crisp (WA 38) starch scale. (Courtesy Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission)

An inside look at WA 38

June 26, 2019
This unnamed new apple bred in Catalonia manages to develop good red color despite summer heat where temperatures reach over 100 degrees, stay hot into the fall and don’t cool at night. (Courtesy T&G Global)

Hot new varieties for hot climates

June 25, 2019
Apples from the 2015 harvest are washed and sanitized at Washington Fruit and Produce company in Yakima, Washington on September 9, 2015. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Defining organics

June 20, 2019
Washington State University sustainable agriculture specialist David Granatstein speaks to attendees of a 2013 WSU field day at Sunrise Research Orchard near Rock Island, Washington. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Organic community honors David Granatstein

June 20, 2019
The chart shows the different responses to Gibberellins A3 depending on application timing, From a cherry fruit school presentation by Bryon Phillips of Valent USA. (Courtesy Valent USA)

Got gibberellins?

June 19, 2019

Michigan apple shippers combine forces

June 18, 2019