It’s increasingly expensive to grow labor-intensive blush cherries, but consumers love them, so growers are looking for ...

Perhaps there is no such thing as a “normal” cherry season — which is why the Northwest industry invests significant time and ...

Should the Washington Apple Commission dip a toe back into the world of domestic marketing by backing a new campaign ...

Tree fruit industry groups will receive a share of federal funding to help diversify export markets.

In 2023, he added a third treatment designed to recover the blind wood developing in the control trees, using stub cuts — albeit stub cuts three times longer than those used on the nursery trees in ...

Why did you go into farming? I believe you must love to be outside to be a farmer and also place a high value on the time you spend with your family. When I got home from school, my mom and dad were ...

Growers in Michigan’s Fruit Ridge orchard region north of Grand Rapids started this growing season with plenty to worry about. Markets were still glutted with apples after a big 2023 crop, and prices ...

The U.S. Department of Labor has enacted updated H-2A regulations that will affect everything from terminating worker contracts to union access to bus seat belts. A new final rule, called “Improving ...

Agricultural employment groups are making a new push this spring for companies to use a training curriculum designed to prevent sexual harassment in Washington’s specialty crops. It’s called “¡Basta!