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Northern giant hornet eradicated from U.S.
After three years without confirmed detections, state and federal agriculture entomology experts have declared the hornet ...
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Good to Know: Sterile moth 101
Michelle Cook and Evan Esch of the the Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile Insect Release BoardThe Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile Insect ...
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More moth math needed for Washington orchards
The experts at the Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile Insect Release Program, which produces the moths, originally thought M3’s ...
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New economic assistance fund created for specialty crop producers
On Dec. 10, the U.S. Department of Agriculture opened a new $2 billion economic assistance program for specialty crop ...
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A cherry tour, technology topics and pears round out Day 2 of the Washington hort show
The Washington State Tree Fruit Association kicked off Day 2 of its annual meeting with a cherry session and a tour of an ...
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Great Lakes EXPO speaker examines the sweetness-to-acidity ratio for sweet cider
“The main point you’re looking for is the ratio between sweetness and acidity,” Krishna Kumar said. “If there’s any ...
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South Africa study tour starts with shade-netted stone fruit
Theron’s colleague, Elke Crouch, and Mariette Kotze of Hortgro, the pome and stone fruit industry’s grower association, also ...
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Lower cost of labor inputs helps South African growers deliver high-quality fruit
That means “heaven for tree fruit,” said company CEO Willem Coetzee in his introduction to the tour group, though others ...
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Longtime industry leader highlights opening morning of Washington State Tree Fruit Association Annual Meeting
Gary Grove, a soon-to-be professor emeritus of plant pathology at Washington State University, told growers they face ...
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2024 pesticide residue study released for Washington apple growers
The Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission announced in a news release the recent completion of its annual study of ...
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EXPO update on SWD parasitoid releases
MSU researchers reared and released a small number of samba wasps in 2022. The wasps were released in “postharvest scenarios” in the wooded edges of cherry and blueberry plantings, where SWD often ...
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Effects of election and judge rulings highlight labor session on final day of Washington hort show
Discussions about how the election and recent federal court cases might affect agricultural employment highlighted the labor session at Day 3 of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association Annual ...