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Summer Fruits
Featured stories covering summer fruits in this issue.
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New blueberry varieties may stretch season, refresh slowing market
The blues are changing their tune
Study pushes limits of deficit irrigation
Drastic reductions in irrigation delivered decent results in first year of study, but vines showed accumulated stress in year two.
Cowgill: Improving rootstocks for peaches
By Win Cowgill: After NC-140 research project’s success, new studies hope to do the same with peaches.
Thwarting a cherry killer
Early research suggests acclimating trees and sending them into early dormancy may help prevent bacterial canker infections.
Lessons learned from Michigan’s plum pox plight
Michigan research station recovers 10 years after infection requires removal of entire orchards.
Southeastern peach growers eye solutions after freeze
After warm winter, southeastern peach growers lost most of their crop to a spring freeze — now finding ways to adapt has become critical.
Colorado’s canker crisis costing millions
Growers and researchers are working together to figure out how to protect peach trees.
Corr: Our mission in Spanish
As every magazine reader knows, this has been an awful decade for the business of journalism. Advertising declined, jobs disappeared. Great magazines shrank or closed.
Hansen: Filling void in weed research at WSU
New WSU faculty member puts emphasis on weed management in Washington vineyards.
Craig Harris, a young grower from Moxee, Washington
family background / Craig is a fourth-generation farmer who graduated from Whitworth College. He grew up on a farm that was transitioning from