Measuring yield variability in a tart cherry orchard block has never been an exact science. For some growers, it consists of sending someone to count the number of bins and roughly gauge the distance ...

To embrace an integrated pest management approach to pear psylla management, growers needed to have faith that natural enemies would show up in the orchard at the right time and magnitude to protect ...

Pests seem indestructible in an orchard, where they breed like crazy. Throw those bugs in a lab, and the story changes. They don’t like their diet. They won’t mate. They won’t lay eggs. And if another ...

To address the growing concern over codling moth management, the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission assembled a new industry task force last fall. Today, the task force consists of 29 members, ...

Almost a decade after the first brown marmorated stink bug outbreak cost Mid-Atlantic apple growers millions, the pest is no longer inducing panic, thanks to advancements in targeted management for ...

Winemakers are asking for white grapes. Brokers are scrambling to keep up with white wine demand. Growers are planting or grafting white varieties. Washington’s white wines are having a moment, ...

The U.S. Department of Labor has enacted updated H-2A regulations that will affect everything from terminating worker contracts to union access to bus seat belts... The U.S. Department of Labor has ...

Hiring and training employees results in piles of paperwork and records that must be retained for audits and inspections. Those paper piles signal opportunities for technology to offer solutions, said ...

Every year, apple fruit thinning overlaps with cherry harvest, posing tough labor management decisions. Northwest engineering researchers are working on a bot for that. Students and researchers at ...

When thinning time comes around, are you tired of counting all those fruitlets, measuring their diameter and entering the data by hand? Wish the process could be simpler and quicker? There are apps ...

For the third time in four years, agricultural employers are adjusting their operations for a new round of H-2A regulatory changes. “The issue is keeping up with it,” said Sean Gilbert, president of ...

Mary “Bess” Lewis joined the Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development team as a management development specialist, according to a news release from Cornell University. Lewis, a bilingual educator, ...