The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced June 20 that it temporarily suspended enforcement of its 2024 Farmworker Protection Rule, effective immediately. The rule faced numerous ...

Moderately sized, regional grocery chains have the dexterity to market small volumes of new fruit. Yoke’s Fresh Market can ...

Visiting viticulturist from Australia shares strategies for sustainable grape growing by embracing functional biodiversity.

Northwest cherry growers depending on local labor began harvest with low crew turnout as workers report fears of immigration ...

Both counties currently grow a lot of the same crops. Some of the diseases are the same, too, such as blueberry anthracnose.

The family’s processing varieties include Idared, Crispin, Rome, Empire and Golden Delicious. Bob said all varieties are ...

Dennis Carlton, de Smallwood Farms, en el condado de Okanogan, Washington, ha tomado prestadas unas ideas para el cultivo de ...

After more than 20 years of trials with well over 100 new sweet cherry varieties, Oregon horticulturist Lynn Long has some new favorites. At the Cherry Institute in Yakima, Washington, in January, he ...

The biggest wild card for the 2025 season is the impact of the global tariffs that the current U.S. political administration has imposed. We were expecting to export close to 6 million ...

Apple growers, packers, retailers and consumers are all trying to find their way in the growing maze of managed varieties. The club crowd: High-quality standards, powerful flavor profiles and clever ...

Planting parameters for various commercially available cherry rootstocks. (Source: L.E. Long/from “Sweet Cherries”) Lynn Long, a retired Oregon State University Extension horticulturist and co-author ...

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.