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New Varieties
Featured stories covering new varieties in this issue.
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To KGB or not to KGB?
Some cherry growers expand, some scale back on labor-friendly Kym Green Bush systems.
New Canadian pear varieties are fire blight tolerant
Growers hope Cold Snap pears, shown here in an Ontario orchard in 2016, can restart the Canadian pear industry thanks to their fire blight
Honeycrisp sports race toward red
Premier Honeycrisp ripens as much as two to three weeks before regular Honeycrisp. (Courtesy Adams County Nursery) New varieties aren’t the only things
Lots of new apples coming to market
The Midwest Apple Improvement Association (MAIA) has been busy with new varieties, including these two: the yellow Crunch-a-Bunch, which is popular in the cider
EverCrisp off to a good start
EverCrisp, the first commercial release for the Midwestern Apple Improvement Association, sold well last year, and growers are expecting a big boost in harvest
Should Cosmic Crisp have a “utility” grade?
Questions remain about color standards for new Washington State University variety.
Cosmic tips to growing WA 38
Stefano Musacchi, Washington State University horticulturist and endowed chair in tree fruit physiology and management, discusses fruit spacing of the Cosmic Crisp in September
Apple industry readies itself for the big thing called Cosmic Crisp
Planting surge of highly hyped Cosmic Crisp is likely to test growers, packers, marketers — and consumers.
Thinking of changing varieties? These growers have some advice.
Switch decision: Why is this new apple the right variety for me?
Daunting decisions when making the variety switch
Weigh all the factors when deciding when and how to switch varieties.
What you learn from 50 million years of apple genetic history
Apple germplasm repository in Geneva, New York, contains enormous collection of genetic diversity that likely holds fruit’s deep secrets.
Ambrosia apple patent opens up
20-year U.S. patent ends on popular club variety.
Northwest wine grape industry to streamline clean plant regulations
Coming clean at the Clean Plant Center Northwest
Rayapati: Risk of virus problems in field-grafted vineyards
The increasing demand for grapevines in the Pacific Northwest has many growers turning to field grafting to expand or replace their vineyards in order to
Gilbert: Farm Bill bears fruit for all
A Good Fruit Grower Good Point by Sean Gilbert, Gilbert Orchards
Alfredo Reyes, a young grower from Royal City, Washington
family background / Alfredo was born in Mexico and grew up in Wenatchee with four sisters and two brothers. Everyone in his immediate