July 2018

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Summer Fruits

Featured stories covering summer fruits in this issue.

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Handle Geneva 41 with care

An example of sour rot in Pinot Noir, and other reds is characterized by grapes that take on a brick-red coloration. Infected grapes, both reds and whites, are also often hollowed out. (Courtesy Wendy McFadden-Smith, OMAFRA)

Studying the rot of the problem

The Penn State Fruit Research and Extension Center on 180 acre in Biglerville, Pennsylvania is the current home of the research efforts to serve the region's tree fruit growers that started in 1918. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower)

Making history in the growing at Penn State

Taking on trellis with peach trees

Examples of Redhaven peaches. (Courtesy Bill Shane/Michigan State University)

Study in quality controls will help manage peach mealiness

A fledgling kestrel peaks out of one of the Michigan State University nest boxes. Of the 25 kestrel nest boxes MSU researchers installed and monitored in cherry orchards over a four-year period, most boxes were occupied every year. In addition, about 90 percent of occupied nests produced young. (Courtesy Megan Shave)

What makes a ‘cultural’ orchardist?

For cherries and blueberries, it pays to prey

Two Northwest associations focused on trade finalize affiliation

Cherries for sale in May at the Murray Family Farms store east of Bakersfield, California. (Photo by Steve Pastis)

Too hot and cold in the Golden State

An OFM larva is revealed in this apple shoot. (Photo by Greg Krawczyk)

Good to Know: Help for managing Oriental fruit moth

Steven Murray Jr. during the International Fruit Tree Association Summer Tour in the Napier, New Zealand area on February 26, 2018. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Steven Murray Jr., a young grower from Bakersfield, California