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Wildflowers border an organic orchard owned by the Plath family

Growing unconventionally: 2018 Good Fruit Growers of the Year

November 30, 2018
Dan Plath shows computer data used to manage Washington Fruit's orchards

Growing by the numbers: 2018 Good Fruit Growers of the Year

November 30, 2018
The Plath family members of Washington Fruit and Produce Co.

Growing generations: 2018 Good Fruit Growers of the Year

November 30, 2018

Growing potential: 2018 Good Fruit Growers of the Year

November 30, 2018
Sergio Berduzco disks in between concord grape rows near Sunnyside, Washington on June 16, 2016. Berduzco says the vineyard disks about every couple weeks to control weed growth.

Conquering Concords

November 15, 2018
International Fruit Tree Association tour attendees depart a hard cider tasting session highlighting BC Tree Fruits' business decision to open a cider processing facility, utilizing the company's cull fruit at their Kelowna, British Columbia, packing facility on July 24, 2018. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

IFTA B.C. tour: Crafty choices

November 15, 2018
The old Okanagan post office in Spallumcheen, British Columbia, was the perfect setting for 2018 International Fruit Tree Association summer tour group photo as LauraLee Heuser Gale, right, gives an announcement in the hot afternoon sun on July 24. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

IFTA B.C. tour: A taste of history

November 15, 2018
Hoff evaluates the performance of a double-row shoot and sucker thinning machine, which requires a tractor driver and two operators, in a Cabernet Sauvignon block at Mercer Estates near Roosevelt, Washington, on Wednesday, May 30, 2018. This machine allows operators to focus on thinning without also having to drive and cuts tractor passes in half, but increases the workers needed per row. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Rise of the machines: Are you ready to mechanize? – Video

October 30, 2018

Devyani Isabel Gupta, a young grower in Walla Walla, Washington

October 26, 2018
Adult female apple clearwing moth works are recognizable by their orange stripes. (Courtesy Mark Gardiner)

Is apple clearwing moth on the move?

October 17, 2018