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Madeleine van Roechoudt, a young grower from Lake Country, British Columbia

August 29, 2018
Red Delicious apples harvested at Zirkle's ranch in Mattawa Washington on September 29, 2016. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Tree fruit added to U.S. relief program for food impacted by trade disputes

August 28, 2018
Drape Net staff member, Ingrid Pilk, pulls the over-row netting down from the top to fully cover this row of Envy apples during the 2018 International Fruit Tree Association New Zealand Study Tour on February 19, 2018, in the Nelson area. Pilk was part of a two person team demonstrating how fast she and the tractor driver (on opposite side of tree row) could install and remove the product. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Going undercover with drape netting

August 15, 2018
With some of the first cherries to ripen in the Othello area, grower Rich Callahan is used to getting hit hard by birds, so he decided to try out a new technology known as Sonic Nets this year that promises to use constant noise pollution instead of startle sounds to keep birds out of the orchard. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Battling birds with lights, sounds — Video

August 6, 2018
D’Anjou pears from the 2015 harvest being packed in Peshastin, Washington. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

MCP treatments can be tricky

July 31, 2018

Guilherme Fontanella Sander, a young grower from Vale do Sol, Brazil

July 27, 2018
Molly Thurston, center, and Madeleine van Roechoudt, right, along with other attendees of the International Fruit Tree Association’s summer tour walk through Dorenberg Orchards in Winfield, British Columbia, on July 25, 2018. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

That’s a wrap: IFTA summer tour concludes

July 26, 2018
International Fruit Tree Association’s 2018 summer tour attendees look out over one of Coral Beach Farms’ late season cherry ranches in Coldstream, British Columbia, on July 25, 2018. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Where no cherry has gone before — IFTA BC tour Day 2

July 25, 2018
The view of the Summerland Research and Development Center, (left) and Okanagan River Valley on July 23, 2018 during the IFTA Summer Tour. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

IFTA tours Summerland research center’s genetic diversity

July 24, 2018
Steven Murray Jr. during the International Fruit Tree Association Summer Tour in the Napier, New Zealand area on February 26, 2018. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Steven Murray Jr., a young grower from Bakersfield, California

June 28, 2018