Smiths Grafting Wax, a well-known brand of grafting wax in New Zealand, is ideal for topworking of orchards and vines and other grafting and pruning uses. It has not been readily available in the U.S.

Madison is first-generation in agriculture. She earned a viticulture degree from Washington State University and is beginning ...

Today, the brothers aren’t the only canning peach growers to harvest with shakers, but the practice is rare. For the past 10 ...

There’s too much research going on at Washington State University’s Sunrise Research Orchard in Wenatchee to fit into one ...

Grape mealybug, rootstock research and boot washing were just a few of the topics covered on July 24 during a wine grape ...

The International Fruit Tree Association’s 2025 Summer Study Tour of Ontario, Canada, wrapped up its third and final day on ...

The replant problem isn’t specific to a particular variety or Michigan growing region, and it affects somewhere between a quarter to half of newly planted fields, said Josh Vander Weide, Michigan ...

Tree Top workers have filed a federal lawsuit against their company for allegedly not paying them for all their work-related ...

Fruit2U Packers in Wellington, South Africa, recently installed solar panels to keep the lights on and the refrigeration running at the packing house during regular “load sharing” power outages — one ...

Del Monte Foods in Yakima, Washington, in November 2024. On May 23, the company announced it is closing the Yakima facility, which canned pears and apples, as well as two associated warehouses. (TJ ...

La cosecha nocturna, que en su momento fue una respuesta de último recurso ante un calor extremo, se ha vuelto ahora tan ...

The Cass rootstock, seen here in a Central Washington trial in April 2016, is one in the Corette series of dwarfing rootstocks developed for cherries by retired Michigan State University tree fruit ...