January 15, 2022

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Postharvest

Featured stories about postharvest and more in this issue.

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Sustainable packaging push

In-bin control expands storage options

Roots on trial

Pear family planning lifts local industry

A skin disorder of apples, lenticel breakdown presents as sunken brown circles around small natural openings in the cuticle, called lenticels, as seen here in Honeycrisp. The disorder, long confined to the West, is showing up more frequently in Eastern states. (Randy Beaudry/Michigan State University)

Heat disorder moving eastward

Help wanted for hiring help

Sanitation tops list for listeria prevention

From tarts to tourism

Lautenbach’s long legacy

Harvest headway — Video

A robot that can pick apples seemed like the goal, but with several new technologies in various stages of development, the question has changed: What can pick apples in a cost-effective way, both for the growers and for the investors required to sustain an ag tech startup’s maturity to an industry service provider? (Photo illustration by TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Business and ’bots

Torres: New alternative for superficial scald

A mealybug destroyer consuming a mealybug. The natural enemy, which is available for commercial purchase, can reduce mealybug pressure in orchards. (Courtesy Rebecca Schmidt-Jeffris/USDA-Agricultural Research Service)

Schmidt-Jeffris: Predator applications

Juan Munguía, a young grower from Mattawa, Washington

Michigan hort society awards distinguished service

Chris Peters, left, is presented with the 2021 Silver Pear Award by Jordan Matson during the Washington State Tree Fruit Association's awards banquet on Tuesday, Dec. 7, at the Yakima Convention Center in Yakima, Washington. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Washington tree fruit industry honors standouts