NEWS
Precision Irrigation Scheduling Tool Now Available
It’s about to be springtime and the start of irrigation season! Crop evapotranspiration (ET) is low in the spring compared to what it is in the middle of the summer. Can I shut my irrigation…
Titer and Distribution of Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni in Prunus avium
The parallel outbreak of Little Cherry and X-disease has become a singular threat to the PNW cherry industry, causing the removal of ca. 1000 acres in the past five years. In Washington, one of the…
2022 WA Tree Fruit Research Commission Grant Awards for Cherry
Date: January 2022 Authors: Paige Beuhler and Ines Hanrahan For 2022, the WA Tree Fruit Research Commission approved $701,654 to help fund ten (10) new projects. The Oregon Sweet Cherry Commission (OSCC) is co-funding nine…
2022 WA Tree Fruit Research Commission Grant Awards for Technology
Date: January 2022 Authors: Paige Beuhler and Ines Hanrahan In December of 2021, the WA Tree Fruit Research Commission approved $706,830 in new technology research for the upcoming year. All newly approved technology projects this…
Climate Analogs for Specialty Crops: See the Future Now
This article is part of a series, Climate Friendly Fruit & Veggies, highlighting work from the Fruit & Vegetable Supply Chains: Climate Adaptation & Mitigation Opportunities (F&V CAMO) project, a collaborative research study This project…
LATEST VIDEOS
New technology for reducing cold damage
This is the third of a four-part video series from the sweet cherry cold hardiness webinar held on Oct 29, 2020. In this video, New technology for reducing cold damage, Brent Arnoldussen, WSU PhD candidate…
Assessing Cold Damage – a Demonstration
This is the last of a four-part series from the sweet cherry cold hardiness webinar held on Oct 29, 2020. In this video, Assessing cold damage, Dr. Matthew Whiting, WSU professor, demonstrates how to assess…
OPPORTUNITIES
Are you interested in improving bee health in your pear block?
We are looking for pear growers interested in participating in a USDA-funded research project this Spring. The project will explore bee health at orchards under different fire blight management schemes (antibiotics & biologicals). We are…
WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS
SOIL CON Washington Soil Health Week
FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL SCALED SOIL HEALTH PARAMETERS Virtual Sessions from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm PST Topics include: Global soil degradation & local solutions Opportunities to incorporate soil biology Regional soil health…
EVENTS
How can we integrate thresholds and scouting? – Pear IPM Study Circle
Feb 8 | Mission Creek Community Club
Okanogan Horticultural Society Meeting
Feb 7 | Okanogan County Agriplex
WSU EXTENSION 2022 LITTLE CHERRY DISEASE DAY
Feb 16 | Kittitas Valley Event Center
Feb 17 | Best Western Inn, Hood River
SOIL CON Washington Soil Health Week
Feb 22 |
TEAM
Karen Lewis
Tianna DuPont
Dani Gray
Gwen Hoheisel
Marcella Magby
Manoella Mendoza
Claire Murphy
Bernardita Sallato
Tory Schmidt
Corina Serban
EDITOR
The February 2022 edition of Fruit Matters was edited by Gwen-Alyn Hoheisel, WSU Extension.
