Designer apples
WSU apple breeder Bruce Barritt and Sue Gardiner, plant gene mapping scientist with HortResearch in New Zealand, discuss how
The next new variety
Cameron Peace, geneticist with WSU, checks seedlings As Washington State University's apple breeder Dr. Bruce Barritt surveys the 30,000 selections
Planting a rose garden
In a strawberry patch next to an apple orchard, technicians David Roys (left) and Cathy Peters and entomologist Tom Unruh
A bed of roses
Dr. Tom Unruh checks if strawberry leafrollers in wild rose bushes are parasitized by the wasp Colpoclypeus florus. Wild multiflora
Mechanical blossom thinning tested on peach
Peach and nectarine growers in Pennsylvania have been testing a mechanical blossom-thinning machine that the state's Ag Innovations research team
HOT TIPS on heat stress
Two Washington State agricultural workers have died of heat stress in the past decade. In one case, it was mid-May
Bartlett tops pear tree sales
Bartlett is still the most popular pear variety being planted in Washington, but sales of d'Anjou nursery trees have picked
Record fresh Bartlett crop forecast
Pear producers in Washington and Oregon expect to harvest a record fresh Bartlett crop this year and more winter pears
Bright idea for improving biocontrol
Sunflowers planted near stone fruit orchards could help a parasite of the oriental fruit moth to survive the winter. Planting
Going all organic
Douglas Fruit Company, one of the largest stone fruit growers and packers in Washington State, is aiming to convert most