June 2019

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New Varieties

Featured stories covering new varieties in this issue.

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Exclusive varieties can benefit all growers

Cosmic Crisp (WA 38) starch scale. (Courtesy Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission)

An inside look at WA 38

This unnamed new apple bred in Catalonia manages to develop good red color despite summer heat where temperatures reach over 100 degrees, stay hot into the fall and don’t cool at night. (Courtesy T&G Global)

Hot new varieties for hot climates

Washington growers sample the WA 2 apple variety during a 2014 tour in Prosser, Washington. A fruit shipper and Washington State University, which developed the variety, are in a legal battle over the rights to commercialize it. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Variety debate

Apples from the 2015 harvest are washed and sanitized at Washington Fruit and Produce company in Yakima, Washington on September 9, 2015. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Defining organics

Washington State University sustainable agriculture specialist David Granatstein speaks to attendees of a 2013 WSU field day at Sunrise Research Orchard near Rock Island, Washington. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Organic community honors David Granatstein

The chart shows the different responses to Gibberellins A3 depending on application timing, From a cherry fruit school presentation by Bryon Phillips of Valent USA. (Courtesy Valent USA)

Got gibberellins?

A four-year study of wine grapes’ leaf water potential versus soil moisture found that different varieties respond to water stress in varying degrees. Varieties such as Semillon and Cabernet Franc respond strongly, Gewurztraminer responds reluctantly, while other varieties fall at various spots in the middle. Previously, conventional belief held that different varieties were either at one end or the other. Source: Joelle Martinez/Washigton State University. Illustration: Jared Johnson/Good Fruit Grower

Wine grapes show a spectrum of stress

Setting the course for future varieties – Video

New niche varieties spreading juicy rumors

Merlot renewal pruning study. Photos courtesy Hemant Gohil/Rutgers University Cooperative Extension. Illustration: Jared Johnson/Good Fruit Grower

Try renewal pruning to delay replanting grapevines

Michigan State University's retractable roof system over a cherry orchard at the Clarksville Research Center in Clarksville, Michigan on April 19, 2017. (Courtesy Gregory Lang/Michigan State University)

Michigan Tree Fruit Commission renews MSU infrastructure funding

Research orchard and laboratory facilities at the Washington State University, Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center (IAREC) on March 28, 2019 in Prosser, Washington. Several research groups use the station, that was first funded in 1919, such as WSU, Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) and United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS). (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

The land grant mission

Seneca Foods plans to close its Sunnyside, Washington, fruit processing facility after the 2019 pear harvest, leaving the Northwest with only two pear canners. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Seneca closing pear processing plant

How mating disruption works. Source: Jay F. Brunner and Alan Knight/Washington State University. Jared Johnson/Good Fruit Grower

Good to Know: The disruption eruption

Dininny: A new view

Erika Espinoza, a young grower from Tieton, Washington