Ines Hanrahan Harvest is a few weeks away, and rain is in the forecast. Before rushing to apply products to minimize rain cracking, what if you could know whether the block was susceptible to cracking before taking steps to prevent it? Dr. Ines Hanrahan, project manager for the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission, has learned much about the rain-cracking susceptibility of cherries as part of her research to find effective cherry antisplitting products. She’s now working to develop an easy test that growers could use to determine the cracking susceptibility of their fruit in real time. “If you know if […]