June 2025

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Good Fruit Grower June 2025 cover: An heirloom apple tree planted in the mid-1800s at Camp Curry, now the parking lot for Curry Village in California’s Yosemite National Park. A restoration project in 2020 applied restorative pruning techniques to stabilize the orchard’s remaining trees. (Photo by Jonelle Mejica/Good Fruit Grower)

New Varieties

Featured stories about new tree fruit varieties — and more — in this issue.

June 2025 — Digital Issue

Table grapes with a twist

Overhead sprinklers rinse away pear psylla honeydew in a Leavenworth, Washington, orchard in June 2023. This grower is washing the best way, using sprinklers above the canopy and starting early in the season, according to research into best practices. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

How to wash a pear tree

Just a handful of Moxxi apples, a new variety from Stemilt Growers, await buyers in March at Yoke’s Fresh Market in Pasco, Washington. Limited quantities and strategic store placement characterize releases of new cultivars in this depressed apple economy. In the background sits Lemonade apples, a specialty variety from Giumarra. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

New apples in small volumes and small stores

Agricultural climate creep

Australian EcoVineyards consultant Mary Retallack demonstrates her insect sampling technique, which uses a butterfly net attached to a funnel that leads to a sample jar, at Hedges Family Estate during a tour of vineyards on Red Mountain, Washington, in April. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower)

EcoVineyards inspiration for Eastern Washington

A high-density block of processing apples in the foreground, with freestanding processing plantings in the background, at Ned Morgan’s farm in Western New York in August 2022. Morgan is experimenting with high-density plantings for processing. (Matt Milkovich/Good Fruit Grower)

Processing perseverance

Here comes the Sunflare apple

Washington State University cherry breeder Per McCord counts and measures the stamens of an R19 cherry blossom in April at the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center near Prosser. As the university prepares to release the cherry for commercial production, McCord’s team is documenting the intricacies of plant and fruit characteristics as required to apply for intellectual property protection. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Newest cherry cultivars get ready to grow

Screenshots of Good Fruit Grower's websites in English and Spanish

Dininny: Website refresh

Good Stuff, June 2025

Mikey Hanks, right, of Washington Fruit Growers leads Wassamon Morawan, center, Sitarat Kana and other Thai fruit buyers on a tour of the company’s Yakima, Washington, packing facilities in late April. On-again, off-again tariffs and a trade war with China have shippers and international buyers uncertain about export markets, but the recent 90-day pause has — at least temporarily — eased the stress. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Tariff debates stir shifting trade winds for cherry industry

Riley Martin, a young grower from Naches, Washington