December 2020

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Convention Special

Featured stories about the Good Fruit Grower of the Year and more in this issue.

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Flyby for fertilizer management

A quest for Great Lakes cider apples

Binding blueberry breeders

Pennsylvania pest control

A farm is born

Can a lucky find now find a home?

Thinning decisions by the numbers

Breaking branches to tame vigor

Sweet cherry harvester not forgotten

Cooperate to co-innovate

Robotic pickers progress through pandemic

The Cosmic two-pick

Cooperation keeps out coronavirus

Success starts in the nursery: 2020 Good Fruit Grower of the Year

The king of crop load: 2020 Good Fruit Grower of the Year

Nonfamily traditions: 2020 Good Fruit Grower of the Year

Rod Farrow at Lamont Fruit Farm

Profit by precision: 2020 Good Fruit Grower of the Year

Parker and Sarah Sherrell, young growers from Hood River, Oregon

Lack of shelf space is a growing concern for retailers trying to accommodate an abundance of new and enticing varieties. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Prophecies from a Supermarket Guru

The shows will go on(line)

DeVaney: Essential doesn’t mean easy

Karen Lewis

Karen Lewis named director for WSU Extension’s Agriculture and Natural Resources Program Unit