October 2015

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Apples & Marketing

Featured stories covering apple and marketing in this issue.

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RubyMac (Courtesy University of Massachusetts, Amherst.)

Looking for good sports

Before you push trees

Bruce Allen has a passion for quality

Grow the tree before cropping Honeycrisp

Bruce Allen leaves some Honeycrisp apples growing in clusters for part of the season to prevent them from growing too big. Bruce Allen computes how many linear feet of fruiting wood there are in the canopy and calculates how many fruit are needed per linear foot of branch to achieve his target yield. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Honeycrisp thinning takes all season

Red Delicious apples days before harvest in Selah, Washington on August 31, 2015. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Smaller apple crop raises hopes

Cashmere orchardist Jim Koempel chats with Raisa Tologonova, an influential orchardist, breeder, and nursery owner in the Kyrgyz state of Issyk-Kul, who will be key in efforts to revive the region’s tree fruit industry. (Courtesy Randy Smith)

Faraway regions form a growing relationship

Randy Beaudry outlined the storage protocols he has developed for maintaining Honeycrisp quality. He spoke to growers in orchard operated by Joe, Al, Dan, and Ryan Dietrich near Conklin, Michigan. He and Dan look over the developing Honeycrisp crop. (Richard Lehnert/Good Fruit Grower)

Crucial tips to store Honeycrisp

Ups and downs of global production

Apples from the 2015 harvest are washed and sanitized at a packing facility in Washington State. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower

Food safety issues challenge industry

The art of talking tannins

Richard Lehnert

Remembering Richard “Dick” Lehnert -1942-2015

Tannins from vine to wine

Brett Valicoff, a Young Grower from Wapato, Washington