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Good Point: Clean Plant 101 – Good Fruit Grower
1 day ago · —by the Washington State Department of Agriculture, the Washington Wine Industry Foundation and the Clean Plant Center Northwest The Washington State Department of Agriculture Plant Services Program administers eight planting-stock certification programs for various crops, including seed potatoes, grapevines, fruit trees, hops, mint, garlic, cane berries
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Removing leaves and retracting netting both boost apple color
Dec 26, 2024 · Leaf removal and net retraction both work to boost color in apples. Those are the conclusions made by Lee Kalcsits of Washington State University, endowed chair of environmental physiology for tree fruit. Kalcsits recently completed two separate, four-year studies of both techniques and reported ...
Cherry growers and consumers continue reaching for Rainier
May 23, 2024 · Ormiston runs an on-site packing operation for his Rainiers. Fruit heads to coolers immediately after harvest, before packing. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower) Employees of the Prosser School District staff Ormiston’s Rainier packing operation for a few weeks each summer. Hand packing the fragile fruit delivers better quality to his sales desk and helps him control costs, Ormiston said ...
Longtime growers share a moment of reckoning on the road to …
Dec 19, 2024 · Consensus 2: Regulation-driven labor cost increases now threaten the viability of apples, pears and cherries. “I don’t know how much more we can endure and keep this state relevant,” said Mark Zirkle, CEO of Zirkle Fruit Co. of Selah, Washington, who was recognized as Grower of the Year in 2016, along with his father, Bill.See “
A clean outlook for clean cultivars – Good Fruit Grower
New technology detects more pathogens, but also raises costs. The new requirement for a high-throughput sequencing approach to testing, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service enacted in 2021, is detecting more pathogens and raising costs, according to the directors of the Clean Plant Center Northwest in Washington and Foundation Plant Services ...
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Patrick and Haley Colbert, young growers from Tonasket, Washington. March 14th, 2024 | 0 Comments. Spouses Haley and Patrick are both third-generation apple and pear growers who each graduated from Washington State University: Haley with a degree in accounting and Patrick with a degree in agricultural technology management.