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Postharvest Issue
Featured stories about postharvest topics in this issue.
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Sierra Williams, a Young Grower from Cedaredge, Colorado
Sierra, a fifth-generation tree fruit grower, is one of three siblings and is the daughter of Dan and Connie Williams.
300 pages on pears
Starkrimson is a strain of Clapp’s Favorite, which was raised by Thaddeus Clapp in Dorcester, Massachussets, in 1860. Starkrimson was discovered in 1939 in
Family Legacy
New McDougall and Sons orchard honors the past and heralds the future.
Race to the top: Honeycrisp growing pressures
As Honeycrisp production increases, growers feel the pressure to produce fruit sooner rather than later.
H-2A is expensive but essential
McDougall and Sons takes pride in its housing camps.
Remarkable Marquette
The Minnesota variety could be nice addition for cooler-climate vineyards.
Saving cherries from the birds
Unfortunately for growers, cherries are often a favorite snack for birds. Researchers are using new findings to help limit damage. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)
Seeking retail space
Retail space is at a premium, with growth in the number of products and organics.
Keeping pears firm
More research ahead for compound to improve pear firmness.
Key to watering Concord grapes
The key times in the growing season when water is most critical to grapevine development are in the spring, at bloom, during fruit set
Strategies for saving water
Dong Wang, research leader with the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center’s Water Management Unit, shows a data logger used to record information from
Changing climate impacts Northwest
Kirti Rajagopalan, left, and Dr. Muhammad Barik Agriculture is a major player in the economy of the Columbia River Basin that spans several
Fruit growers brace for potential drought … again
Ron Moorse, a foreman from the Bureau of Reclamation, shuts the Roza Irrigation District down the morning of May 11, 2015, to manage drought
Learning to fight Listeria
Rick Beecroft, right, of Monson Fruit Company leads food safety scientist Kathleen Glass of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Food Research Institute on a tour