The standard advice for surviving the apple industry’s present downturn is to use block-level accounting to understand which ...

Sweet and hard cider are other good outlets for excess apple production, but U-pick is “by far the most profitable way to ...

Welch’s growers reported decent prices this year, “in the $400 range” for grapes, said Carter Kilian, a Sunnyside grower.

Both netting and leaves shade apples during the hottest part of the summer, protecting them from sunburn. Removing either — ...

Michigan’s fruit and vegetable industries can’t sustain H-2A wage increases for much longer, so they banded together to get ...

Five years ago, when Renfu Lu’s research team tested its in-field sorting machine in Michigan apple orchards, they received ...

H-2A wages will rise again this year for most — but not all — U.S. growers who contract with temporary agricultural workers.

In October 2023, Crist Bros joined with the New York State Vegetable Growers Association and a few other New York specialty ...

According to a long-running court case between the Canadian government and a few Washington fruit businesses, it requires ...

Washington State Department of Agriculture, the Washington Wine Industry Foundation and the Clean Plant Center Northwest The ...

For most mainstream retailers, Honeycrisp and Gala alone account for almost 50 percent of the volume. But many stores may ...

Gerlach expects to see a similar “long tail” — stretching the crop over 15 months — with the 2024 crop, which also came in ...