August 2015

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Harvest/Buyer’s Guide

Featured stories covering summer harvest including our annual Buyer’s Guide appear in this issue.

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Fresh-cut path for Woot Froot

Entomologist Alan Knight (left), and technician Ben Zeigler, is doing research using baker’s yeast and sugar to make codling moth controls more effective. (Courtesy USDA-ARS)

Results rise with adjuvants

Hedging to improve quality

Help with hedging

This new Coene orchard is SnapDragon, planted at high densities and on trellises. (Richard Lehnert/Good Fruit Grower)

Growers transition to fresh market apples

Processed apples have a future

Embrace wine diversity

Warm and cool site challenges

A new way of life

Friend of the Young Child

Spotted wing drosophila love blueberries, though not when they’ve been treated with butyl anthranilate. The male fly has a dark spot at the tip of its wings. (Courtesy University of California, Riverside)

Safe product repels drosophila

U.S. consumers are eating fewer fresh apples

Apple consumption needs a boost

SnapDragon lacks vigor

Should domestic apple promotions be revived?

Developing tomorrow’s workforce

Ecofarm raises food awareness

FairWeigh system for fair pay

Manuel Martinez Jr., a Young Grower from Royal City, Washington

Magic water