January 15, 2020

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Postharvest

Featured stories covering postharvest topics, and more, in this issue.

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Cultivars with reputations for storage complications

Harvester makes sort work in the orchard

Rootstocks from Krymsk, Russia, with love

Pears roll over the new line at Mount Adams Fruit, which rebuilt its packing facility in Bingen, Washington, with the latest technology after a 2017 fire destroyed the previous facility. The pear-specific equipment lines up fruit horizontally to roll it evenly for optical sorters. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Pear packers see the future on the line

Fungicide resistance a growing concern

Sun stress has growers sun wary

Hotter climate alters the cold chain

Big plans for more mayhaws

Washington State University pome fruit breeder Kate Evans works in a greenhouse at the university’s Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee. A group of pear industry growers and research officials have suggested starting a pear cultivar breeding program, likely helmed by Evans, who already leads apple cultivar breeding and pear rootstock breeding efforts at the facility. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

A variety of options for pear breeding

Getting misty for evaporative cooling

Washington State University hires new extension specialist

Beth Brown, a young grower from Waterport, New York

Powdery mildew disease caused by Podosphaera clandestina on Bing cherries. (Courtesy Prashant Swamy)

Good to Know: Risk reduction proven

All that remains is the ice-shaped “ghost” of this Jonagold apple. Sietsema dubbed them “Jonaghosts” when these images went viral online.(Courtesy Andrew Sietsema)

Johnson: Ghost apples appear at Good Fruit Grower