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University of Minnesota apple variety MN #1955 is trademarked nationally as Rave and sold by Minnesota growers as First Kiss. (Courtesy David Hansen, University of Minnesota)

Variety Watch: An apple so nice, they named it twice

October 10, 2018
Juan Pablo Ramirez removes a bin of organic apples from a fourth leaf Buckeye Gala planting at the New Royal Bluff Orchard in Royal City, Washington, on Wednesday, August 22, 2018. Gala is expected to overtake Red Delicious as the state's number 1 variety by volume this year. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

2018 apple harvest by the numbers

October 2, 2018

WSU, Australian university team up for new robotics collaboration

October 1, 2018

New regulations over wine wastewater

September 25, 2018
Harwinder Singh, right, tosses a Bushpro mylar cover over Skeena cherries from Sukhpaul Bal's Hillcrest Farms in Kelowna, British Columbia, on July 21, 2018. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Cool cherry covers

September 12, 2018

IFTA B.C. tour: Some promising previews

September 10, 2018
A cherry rests atop a spectrometer, which measures light absorption as a way to indicate the level of soluble solids and other factors in determining fruit maturity. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

IFTA B.C. tour: Light vision

September 5, 2018
Orchard managers at Coral Beach Farms in British Columbia, Canada, train first-year cherry trees by wedging a toothpick between the leader and young shoots to widen the crotch angle and make more lateral branches, like on this tree in Winfield. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

IFTA B.C. tour: Lessons from Lake Country

September 4, 2018
Bartlett pear halves. (Courtesy Pacific Northwest Canned Pear Service)

New price for processed pears: $353 per ton

August 30, 2018
Hank Markgraf pulls one of the many BC Tree Fruits’ cherry boxes down from stacks prepared for packing in the Kelowna, British Columbia, packing facility on July 20, 2018. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

IFTA B.C. tour: Land of late and lucrative cherries – Video

August 30, 2018