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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

by: Tianna DuPont, WSU Tree Fruit Extension Specialist; Stefano Musacchi, Associate Professor, Endowed Chair – Tree Fruit Physiology and Management; Tom Auvil, Project Manager, Tree…

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).…

Check out WSU's new video Pollination and Protecting Pollinators. Timothy Lawrence and Darrell Kilgore, received the Gold Award from the Association of Natural Resource Extension…

Dr. Stefano Musacchi, professor of horticulture at Washington State University and Bob Gix, horticulturist at Blue Star Orchard shared pear pruning ideas at this spring’s…