“We have reached the stage of critical mass, meaning that we now have year-round volume,” said Kevin Brandt, vice president ...

Wood has been ground-harvesting cider apples by hand for more than three decades. He knows a handful of other growers in the ...

Isaac is second-generation in the fruit industry. He is one of three sons of Silvia Muñiz and Carlos Balderas. age/ ...

B.J. Thurlby, president of Northwest Cherries, recaps the 2024 cherry season to kick off the 82nd annual Cherry Institute Jan ...

Welch’s growers reported decent prices this year, “in the $400 range” for grapes, said Carter Kilian, a Sunnyside grower.

According to a long-running court case between the Canadian government and a few Washington fruit businesses, it requires ...

The standard advice for surviving the apple industry’s present downturn is to use block-level accounting to understand which ...

H-2A wages will rise again this year for most — but not all — U.S. growers who contract with temporary agricultural workers.

Sweet and hard cider are other good outlets for excess apple production, but U-pick is “by far the most profitable way to ...

In October 2023, Crist Bros joined with the New York State Vegetable Growers Association and a few other New York specialty ...