Jessica graduated from Penn State University and earned her master’s degree in soil science at the University of Vermont. She has a twin brother, Josh, a sister, Lindsey, and is the daughter of Terri ...

Apple trees usually want to grow up. Horticultural systems were engineered around the trees’ innate apical dominance, but ...

Now many years into the battle against X disease and little cherry disease, growers find themselves skipping the testing ...

The apple’s greatest genetic diversity can be found in its place of origin, Central Asia. Meanwhile, the greatest genetic ...

Chill hours are the cumulative amount of cool weather trees need for adequate budbreak and flowering. If cherries don’t get ...

The expansion includes two other critical fungal diseases, downy mildew and botrytis bunch rot, and the primary fungicides ...

Kasugamycin and streptomycin have different modes of action but are both bactericidal, which means they kill bacteria.

Jon Clements was given the 2025 IFTA Industry Service Award. A longtime extension tree fruit specialist with the University ...

A recent survey of Pacific Northwest cherry orchards uncovered the presence of a new dieback pathogen in the region — one ...

Michigan State University research assistant Chayce Griffith discusses bitter pit prevention during the International Fruit ...

Paul is a fourth-generation farmer working on his 100-year-old family farm located in the Netherlands’ Gelderland province.

“We’re going to stick with the redhead,” said Karley Lange, Northwest Cherries director of domestic promotions. Lange will ...