As a tree fruit grower in Washington state, you are involved in a risky business. Some years the dice roll your way, some they don’t. Managing your risk isn’t getting any easier, and every year seems to bring a new set of challenges, some biological, some regulatory, some market-based, and some related to that great uncertainty, the weather. It is fair to say the expansion and viability of the Washington tree fruit industry owes a significant debt to technological innovations created by researchers and validated for commercial impact by extension professionals. Those innovations include long-term storage, crop protection and IPM, […]