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General Versus Location-specific Fungicide Recommendations to Reduce Decays
For many years, general spray recommendations preharvest or at harvest were given based on the assumed efficacy of the fungicide. However, some fungicides may not…
Water Quality Assessment Approved
The Washington State Department of Ecology is pleased to announce that the Water Quality Assessment submitted to EPA on September 28, 2015 has been approved…
Cherry Residue Report Released
For the sixth consecutive year, the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission has conducted studies to provide the Northwest cherry industry basic information about residues of…
Water Sampling Done Simply
This document is meant to provide simple, easy to follow recommendations for water quality sampling under the FSMA Produce Safety Rule for Agricultural Water testing. The…
New Tools to Help Determine Maturity of Tree Fruit
Accurate information about the status of maturity of fruit on the tree prior to harvest, at receiving in the storage facility and throughout storage is…
Monitoring and Conserving Earwigs in Washington State Apple Orchards
Studies show earwigs can suppress woolly apple aphid populations and they also feed on many other pests, including rosy apple aphid, apple aphid, codling moth…
Organic Outlook
There is a new webpage available for organic outlook. The organic food market is dynamic and growing. In Washington State, organic tree fruit production accounts…
Geneva Rootstock Performance: 2016 Rootstock Trial Update
There is likely not a ‘Best’ apple rootstock. The replant tolerant Geneva rootstocks (G.41, G.214, G.935, G.210, G.969, G.890) are much better than the available…
WA 38 Horticulture: Characteristics and Preliminary Results
by: Tianna DuPont, WSU Tree Fruit Extension Specialist; Stefano Musacchi, Associate Professor, Endowed Chair – Tree Fruit Physiology and Management; Tom Auvil, Project Manager, Tree…
Quarantine Diseases: Biology and Current Research with Pathogens of Manchurian Crabapple
In 2012 China closed their doors to US apples because of three diseases Bull’s eye Rot, Speck Rot (Phacidiopycnis washingtonensis) and Sphaeropsis Rot (Sphaeropsis pyriputrescens).…
