January 15, 2016

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Postharvest Issue

Featured stories about postharvest topics in this issue.

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Sierra Williams, a Young Grower from Cedaredge, Colorado

Starkrimson is a strain of Clapp’s Favorite, which was raised by Thaddeus Clapp in Dorcester, Massachussets, in 1860. Starkrimson was discovered in 1939 in South Haven, Michigan, by Adrian Kalle and introduced by Stark Bros. nursery in 1956. Starkrimson was tested in the United Kingdom but didn’t catch on because the fruit color was considered too unusual, according to Joan Morgan’s The Book of Pears. (Courtesy Painting by Elisabeth Dowle)

300 pages on pears

Family Legacy

Relative growth of Honeycrisp trees after the first growing season in a rootstock trial in East Wenatchee. Source: Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission (Jared Johnson/Good Fruit Grower)

Race to the top: Honeycrisp growing pressures

The Legacy orchard has housing for 98 workers. McDougall is constructing more housing to double that number. (Geraldine Warner/Good Fruit Gower)

H-2A is expensive but essential

Paul Champoux thinks Marquette grapes, which he first planted in 2011, could be a good option for some Washington vineyards. (Courtesy Paul Champoux)

Remarkable Marquette

Saving cherries from the birds

With display space for apples already crowded on retail shelves, will there be space for new varieties coming to market? (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Seeking retail space

Keeping pears firm

Grape irrigation near Sunnyside, Washington on June 11, 2014. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower) The key times in the growing season when water is most critical to grapevine development are in the spring, at bloom, during fruit set and during compound bud development.

Key to watering Concord grapes

Dong Wang, research leader with the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center’s Water Management Unit, shows a data logger used to record information from soil moisture sensors placed at various depths. (Vicky Boyd/for Good Fruit Grower)

Strategies for saving water

Pacific Northwest

Changing climate impacts Northwest

Fruit growers brace for potential drought … again

Learning to fight Listeria