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Good Fruit Grower1 年
Wiggs: Consider the costs for crop insurance - Good Fruit Grower
This chart shows an example of cherry crop insurance at 70 percent of the insurance guarantee. (Source: Jennifer Wiggs/Washington State Fruit commission Board; Graphic: Jared Johnson/Good Fruit Grower ...
Good Fruit Grower1 年
Hansen: Smoke science research advances - Good Fruit Grower
The Washington State Wine Commission continues to have direct input in smoke research. At the state level, we fund smoke research at Washington State University. Regionally, we serve on the advisory ...
Good Fruit Grower1 年
Tech for measuring tart yields - Good Fruit Grower
Black is leading the effort to develop a yield-monitoring system for tart cherries — part of a four-year, $2 million research project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop ...
Good Fruit Grower1 年
Evidence for inaction with psylla control - Good Fruit Grower
Examples of data presented in the new app developed by Washington State University to help growers control pear psylla using integrated pest management. (Source: Tianna DuPont/Washington State ...
Good Fruit Grower8 年
H-2A expands despite costs - Good Fruit Grower
H-2A tips Tips and advice for growers using H-2A labor could fill a book, but here are a few highlights discussed during workshops and conferences this year: —Put a variety of farm tasks on the DOL ...
Good Fruit Grower9 年
Growers get peek at automatic picking machine — VIDEO
Salisbury said he and the research team went into this project from the perspective that there were two issues to resolve. One involved perception — how does the machine differentiate fruit from ...
Good Fruit Grower2 年
Hard cider sales show regional resiliency – Good Fruit Grower
McGrath said there are about 1,070 hard cideries in the United States (including breweries, wineries and meaderies that also make cider), a sevenfold increase since 2011. Cider is now made ...
Good Fruit Grower5 年
The spread of spotted lanternfly - Good Fruit Grower
Heather Leach discussed the invasive pest in December, during the Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable & Farm Market EXPO in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Leach, an extension associate with Penn State University, ...
Good Fruit Grower1 年
Orchard pests also pose problems in the lab - Good Fruit Grower
Male and female leafhoppers cavort in a mating cage shortly after being caught for a research colony at the Mid-Columbia Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Hood River, Oregon. A few ...
Good Fruit Grower4 年
New task force tackles codling moth – Good Fruit Grower
A codling moth adult on an apple fruitlet. Codling moth management challenges prompted the creation of a new industry task force. (Courtesy Mike Doerr/Washington State University) To address the ...
Good Fruit Grower2 年
Edge effects may boost biocontrol – Good Fruit Grower
Himalayan blackberry already hosts populations of SWD, one of the challenges growers in the region face to manage the pest. It’s hoped that liability can become an asset if Ganaspis and other ...
Good Fruit Grower7月
Change of hue for Washington vineyards – Good Fruit Grower
The numbers Price per ton for grapes overall increased from 2022 to 2023, according to the Washington State Wine Commission’s grape production report for 2023, a year of drastic volume decreases, ...