Good Fruit Grower
A three-for-all approach to orchard systems. Cornerstone Ranches stays the course with three-leader V-trellis system, regardless of variety. Growers and food groups overcoming an apple oversupply. West Virginia growers and government pivoting with surplus of processing apples. Sweet stops on California stone fruit tour.
Recent Articles – Good Fruit Grower
July 30th, 2024. family background/ Sam is a sixth-generation farmer who is engaged to Lucia Ellis and is the son of Larry and Janice Lutz. Cassian is a first-generation farmer who is married to Emily Lutz and is the son of Jean-Guy Ferlatte and Bernadette Fernandes.
Crops – Good Fruit Grower
4 days ago · Washington Apple Commission talks 2024 crop and promotional plans. October 17th, 2024 | 0 Comments. The Washington Apple Commission met Oct. 15 in Ellensburg for the first time with new president Michael Schadler on board and discussed the ongoing harvest, the promotional budget for the 2024–25 crop year and how …
Cherry growers and consumers continue reaching for Rainier
Nov 3, 2024 · Rainier cherries were a bright spot in the 2023 market, but they are expensive to produce. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower) The shelf space has shrunk somewhat: In 2023, Northwest growers shipped 1.55 million boxes of blush cherries, shy of the previous five-year average of 1.9 million boxes. But Thurlby doesn’t see that as driven by the ...
Concord cash prices create confusion – Good Fruit Grower
4 days ago · Concord growers went into the season optimistic after strong prices for the 2022 crop. But some of the region’s processors dropped their prices dramatically, pulling down the weighted average cash price from $407 per ton in 2022 to $204 per ton in 2023. Those estimates, shared by Trent Ball of Yakima Valley College during the Washington State ...
About Us – Good Fruit Grower
About Us. Good Fruit Grower magazine was established in 1946 and is eagerly read by orchardists and vineyardists worldwide. It covers the growing, packing, handling, marketing and promotion of tree fruits (apples, pears, cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines and plums), as well as juice and wine grape production. The magazine is published in ...
Come on, get Happi – Good Fruit Grower
4 days ago · December 2021 Issue. Kate Prengaman // December 29, 2021. A Canadian-bred pear variety, HW 624, awaits harvest in a Quincy, Washington, block in late August. It’s the first commercial harvest for the fruit, marketed as the Happi Pear by Stemilt Growers, which holds the exclusive U.S. license to the pears. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)
A lot of choices for cherry rootstocks – Good Fruit Grower
Nov 4, 2024 · Matt Milkovich joined the Good Fruit Grower staff in 2019. From his home base in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Milkovich brings a depth of experience in the fruit industry and the perspective from east of the Mississippi. You can reach …
Smart Orchard 2.0 – Good Fruit Grower
4 days ago · The Smart Orchard started in a Gala block owned by Chiawana Orchards outside Pasco, Washington, in 2020. For the project’s second site, added in 2021, the Smart Orchard team wanted more variability, which is key to assessing sensors’ capabilities, Kalcsits said. They found it in a Honeycrisp block in the Yakima Valley that’s owned by ...
A clean outlook for clean cultivars – Good Fruit Grower
That line is now shrinking. Over the past six years, CPCNW fully released 534 tree fruit cultivars, along with 17 conditional releases for cultivars harboring cherry virus A, which is not considered a risk. During that time, it received 272 new introductions, down from the 2012 peak of 189 in a single year. Meanwhile, FPS has released 232 tree ...