The Washington State Wine Commission continues to have direct input in smoke research. At the state level, we fund smoke research at Washington State University. Regionally, we serve on the advisory ...

H-2A tips Tips and advice for growers using H-2A labor could fill a book, but here are a few highlights discussed during workshops and conferences this year: —Put a variety of farm tasks on the DOL ...

Food safety is an important part of any operation, but many growers and packers wrestle with questions connected to how they can best use limited resources to deliver the safest produce possible. A ...

Salisbury said he and the research team went into this project from the perspective that there were two issues to resolve. One involved perception — how does the machine differentiate fruit from ...

McGrath said there are about 1,070 hard cideries in the United States (including breweries, wineries and meaderies that also make cider), a sevenfold increase since 2011. Cider is now made ...

Small, fruit-fly sized samurai wasps (Trissolcus japonicus) emerge from brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) eggs and stretch their wings before flying off into a commercial apple orchard near White ...

A codling moth adult on an apple fruitlet. Codling moth management challenges prompted the creation of a new industry task force. (Courtesy Mike Doerr/Washington State University) To address the ...

Himalayan blackberry already hosts populations of SWD, one of the challenges growers in the region face to manage the pest. It’s hoped that liability can become an asset if Ganaspis and other ...

How the vineyard floor is managed can influence soil health metrics, as in this vineyard near Walla Walla, Washington, where native vegetation was managed in the alleyway when the Washington State ...

Weeks before apple harvest began, British Columbia’s largest packer announced a sudden shutdown, sending growers scrambling. “There’s 200-plus farm families still belonging to the co-op that now have ...

Hiring and training employees results in piles of paperwork and records that must be retained for audits and inspections. Those paper piles signal opportunities for technology to offer solutions, said ...

The numbers Price per ton for grapes overall increased from 2022 to 2023, according to the Washington State Wine Commission’s grape production report for 2023, a year of drastic volume decreases, ...