The new year kicked off with some new alignments in the Washington tree fruit industry, following the closure of the Sage Fruit sales desk at the end of 2024. It’s yet another sign of the challenges ...

This chart highlights the percentage of U.S. apples, cherries and pears exported to Mexico from 2012 to 2024. (Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service; Graphic: Jared ...

When Clayton Slaughter noticed the large volume of fruit left on the orchard floor during harvest, it bothered him. Some might see dropped apples as the cost of doing business in an orchard. Slaughter ...

Large, high-quality cherries make a block profitable, even if producing them is expensive. Training limbs, renewing branches and harvesting all cost money, but doing those things well help growers ...

Washington now grows enough WA 38 apples to fill store shelves all year, but how to do that and maintain quality standards is part of an ongoing industry debate. In 2024, the sixth year of commercial ...

Isaac is second-generation in the fruit industry. He is one of three sons of Silvia Muñiz and Carlos Balderas. age/ ...