January 15, 2017

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Postharvest

Featured stories covering postharvest managment in this issue.

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Blazing a trail for female growers

New postharvest fungicide idea comes from an old place

File photo of a CA door

Targeting bacterial pathogens in cold storage with ozone

This interior browning damage in Honeycrisp is characteristic of elevated postharvest levels of carbon dioxide. Unlike other varieties that do just fine at 3 percent carbon dioxide, MSU’s Randy Beaudry says levels must remain below 1 percent for the first 30 days after harvest if fruit has not been treated with diphenylamine (DPA). (Courtesy Randolph Beaudry)

Safeguarding Honeycrisp from storage disorders

Distinctive bitter pit spots develop on Honeycrisp apples as part of an experiment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Tree Fruit Research Laboratory in Wenatchee, Washington. The experiment, led by Jim Mattheis, seeks to understand what combination of postharvest practices best reduces development of bitter pit in the notoriously finicky variety. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower)

Beating bitter pit in Honeycrisp

Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower Samples have been taken from Granny Smith apple peels to test for early warning signs of superficial scald at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Tree Fruit Research Laboratory in Wenatchee, Washington. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower)

Seeing scald before it happens with new tool

Chase shows the proper level of air space that should remain in a testing container when sampling water. The inside of sampling containers must not come in contact with possible contaminants, such as equipment or foliage. Also, don’t touch the inside of the bottle or cap. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Hanrahan: Food safety questions and answers

Alejandro Garcia hand scrubs the packing line conveyor system. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Compliance countdown: Getting ready for next year’s food safety regulations

Year after year, the striking images on our covers live on

Ariane Stechmann, Young Grower from Hamburg, Germany

Terry Bates, director of the Cornell University Lake Erie Research and Extension center, describes a small crop research initiative project about variable crop management during the Ravenholt Lecture at the Washington State University Wine Science Center in Richland, Washington, in November. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Managing a variable vineyard

Trevor Suslow, new director of the Postharvest Technology Center at the University of California, Davis. (Courtesy Trevor Suslow)

New hires at UC Davis and Washington State