To address the growing concern over codling moth management, the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission assembled a new industry task force last fall. Today, the task force consists of 29 members, ...

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With its new NASA Acres program, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will use its substantial technological resources to aid American agriculture. And, with help from Cornell University, ...

Instead of gathering together for the traditional scholarship celebration luncheons held each year, the Washington Apple Education Foundation is recognizing the organization’s scholarship recipients ...

Growing organic apples is hard, but reading their market can be just as hard. Overlapping, though not conflicting, messages characterized the first organics session in several years at the Washington ...

In just three years, sterile insect release has become such a popular commercial method of codling moth control in Washington that the company releasing the moths with drones cannot expand any further ...

Katie Murray, of Oregon State University’s Integrated Plant Protection Center, has been appointed statewide integrated pest management coordinator for Oregon, according to a statement from OSU.

Dick Boushey’s favorite vineyard is a freshly picked vineyard. “Now I can stop worrying about them,” he said, smiling at the empty vines in a Syrah block on Red Mountain where his crew had just ...

Manoj Karkee, an associate professor in WSU’s Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems in Prosser, will lead a team of scientists to develop computer sensing and a robotic arm to spread ...

Grape growers in Michigan are wanted to help with a survey throughout the state to help identify fungicide resistant powdery mildew populations. This season’s weather conditions are contributing to ...