Help for apple blossom thinning Researchers are releasing revised pollen tube growth models for Honeycrisp and Granny Smith apple varieties in Washington and are continuing to update a model for Red D...

Seeing scald before it happens with new tool (Good Fruit Grower Article) This Biomarker discovery could be used by warehouses to detect early warning signs scald before it happens. Read this Good Frui...

The Emerging Leaders Group was invited to visit a local Kiwi fruit orchard and pack house in Bunbartha. Ryan Donovan who is the manager for Seeka was pleased to host the event and show the group how K...

Article by Bas van den Ende and Judy Tisdall The M.9 rootstock is widely used in high-density plantings of apples in many countries. Trees on this dwarfing rootstock have shown good precocity, high tr...

Article by Bas van den Ende Consultant in fruit production (ret.). When you have planted fruit trees this winter, you may notice during the growing season, that some or all of the trees make poor grow...

Article by Bas van den Ende Consultant in fruit production (ret.). Every orchardist should understand the importance of soil pH as it influences availability of mineral nutrients in the soil necessary...