Sweetie, Smitten, and Papple
Porter says new varieties open doors for growers, but farmers who know their costs are most likely to
Lottery planned for WA 38
Washington State University expects big demand for trees of its latest apple release.
Reluctant Regina
Cherry growers in Oregon like the Regina cherry. They like that it has some resistance to rain cracking and that the fruit ships well to Asia or Europe. They just wish the trees would be more productive.
New York apples names
Jeff Crist shows the new logo for SnapDragon (formerly New York 1), pictured right. Photos courtesy of Cornell University
Pear industry ripe for change
When Dr. Amit Dhingra joined Washington State University seven years ago as a plant genomicist, one thing immediately struck him
Top Five pear research needs
Ray Schmitten Although most pears are grown in traditional orchards, the same way they’ve been grown for many
Good Stuff
Closer receives registration Dow AgroSciences has received federal registration of its sulfoxaflor insecticide, sold under the brand name Closer, which
Consumer pull
Proprietary Variety Management, a new company helping to commercialize two new red-fleshed apple varieties developed by Bill Howell of Prosser,
Hot tips for Honeycrisp
Growers visited the Honeycrisp orchard of Mike Robinson (right) in June and will have the opportunity to return near harvest
The path to commercialization
For seven years now, Rutgers University of New Jersey and Adams County Nursery in Aspers, Pennsylvania, have been working under