Shannon Dininny

—by Shannon Dininny

A time to celebrate and collaborate, with more to come in the year ahead.

Shannon DininnyIn recent months, Good Fruit Grower has increasingly fielded calls not just from growers, but also service providers, industry groups and

Shannon DininnyWe know many of our magazine readers are also active on social media. For several years, Good Fruit Grower has been posting

Horticulturist Dave Gleason, seen here in a young apple orchard in Washington’s Yakima Valley,

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Good Fruit Grower is gaining a new advertising sales coordinator. Germaine Newstead joined the magazine July 1 to succeed longtime coordinator Theresa Currell, who retires in September. Germaine NewsteadIn addition to working

An example of Cosmic Crisp apple marketing for store displays. (Courtesy Proprietary Variety Management)

New WSU-bred apple showing different starch clearing patterns than traditional varieties.

For years, Washington growers and packers have turned to a handy, 36-page guide to determine the exact cause of the flaws in their apples. Alas, the Quick Identification Guide to Apple Postharvest Defects and Disorders is long out of print — and as noted by Rob Blakey, former Washington State University postharvest extension specialist now

With millions of boxes hitting the market in the next five years, the marketing campaign for Washington’s exclusive Cosmic Crisp variety is quickly ramping up. (Courtesy Proprietary Variety Management)Washington State University and the company contracted to launch its new WA

Researcher works to determine if growers can increase yields without diminishing quality.

Cherry growers are expected to share in $111.5 million in aid as part of an overall $12 billion package the Trump administration approved to help growers and producers hurt by trade policies.

Washington State University’s Stefano Musacchi, left, and Todd Einhorn, formerly with Oregon State University but now working at Michigan State University, review a pear block

D’Anjou pears from the 2015 harvest being packed in Peshastin, Washington. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)It’s no secret MCP treatments on pears can be a highly complicated business that affects fruit quality, ripening

Redhaven peaches were part of an Ontario study looking at the effects of waxes and coating. The variety was included in a second part of the study examining how chilling and conditioning affect mealiness. The Redhavens shown here were

Michigan State University horticulturist Greg Lang shows a system combining Gisela 3 rootstock and KGB architecture. It was pruned back to the permanent wood in April, but in mid-October (shown here), it has refilled the space entirely. Lang is leading a set of trials in Michigan and elsewhere

A fifth-year Sweetheart cherry block overlooks Flathead Lake south of Bigfork, Montana in July 2017. Northwest Montana’s warm summer days and cool nights lend themselves to high-quality fruit, but growing cherries in Big Sky country is not for the faint of heart. (Shannon Dininny/Good Fruit Grower)The

Gebbers Farms had built the housing and done the complex paperwork to bring in foreign guest workers under the federal H-2A program. Workers had landed in Seattle and were en route to the company’s North Central Washington orchards when someone at the company asked, “Do they have bedding?”“Everythin…

Keith Veselka, from Yakima, Washington, takes photos of red colored netting covering part of Fairfield Orchard in Motueka, New Zealand during the 2018 International Fruit Tree Association New Zealand Study Tour on February 19, 2018. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower) Apple growers across the globe have deployed netting