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New Varieties
Featured stories covering new tree fruit and grape varieties appear in this issue.
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Stinging nettle is beneficial
Nettles provide habitat for natural enemies of pests.
Pear production stays stable
Northwest growers forecast another manageable crop.
Spray guide offers tree row volume spraying tips
The 2015 New Jersey Commercial Tree Fruit Production Guide devotes six pages to the subject of applying sprays according to the volume of the tree
Matching the spray to the tree
As canopy volume has decreased, growers would like to use less pesticide.
How to manage young Honeycrisp
Crop load management is critical for return bloom and good tree growth.
Reds still dominate apple exports
Club varieties are too expensive when freight and duties are added.
Ambrosia restrictions to end
By 2019, Ambrosia will be an open variety in both the United States and Canada. But it won’t do well in all locations, growers are warned.
A direct link to consumers
Mo Tougas Direct marketers—those folks, mostly in the East, who sell most of the fruit they grow directly to consumers—have not been, for
Clubs are changing how apples are marketed — and priced
Stemilt has the exclusive U.S. rights to market the German apple Pinova under the brand name Piñata. Courtesy Stemilt Growers The Honeycrisp apple
Clubs exclude many growers
Varieties are managed to create a controlled scarcity of product.
New apple varieties excite consumers
But there's not room in the grocery store for all the contenders.
Apple varieties from A to Z
Sink your teeth into this alphabet of apples
Evan Kruse, Young Grower from Roseburg, Oregon
Evan, a fourth generation grower who also manages a large farm market, Kruse Farms, talks with Good Fruit Grower about growing in Roseburg.
Will Honeycrisp become a victim of its popularity?
Will Honeycrisp become a victim of its popularity?
Who’s going to sell all these apples?
And who's going to buy them?
Corr: Consumers decide
The June 2015 issue of Good Fruit Grower examines how new varieties are changing the economics of the apple industry. When the domestic market tilts
How many apple varieties are too many?
The proliferation of new varieties is producer driven, not a result of pent-up consumer demand.
Student wines toast WSU Wine Science Center’s opening
Student-made Blended Learning wines will be poured at the grand opening of Washington State University’s Wine Science Center. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower) Washington’s
Industry celebrates WSU’s wine science center
World-class research and teaching facility elevates Washington in the wine world.