In 2026, Good Fruit Grower celebrates 80 years of publication. Since its inaugural issue in 1946, when the Shields family in ...

Karley Lange, director of domestic promotions for Northwest Cherries, points to the short California crop as part of the 2025 ...

ZGROUP will showcase its latest cooling innovations and case studies at the 83rd Annual Cherry Institute on Jan. 7 in Yakima, ...

Washington Fruit Growers heads into the new year with new orchard leadership. The Yakima-based company, which has orchards across the Yakima Valley and Columbia Basin, announced that Dan Plath, ...

Though he concedes no wrongdoing, a Washington grower has chosen to settle a lawsuit about his alleged bias toward H-2A employees rather than risk an expensive legal battle. Graham Gamache, […] ...

Knowledge is power. If you know the fungicide resistance status of pathogens that cause common diseases in your orchards and vineyards, you can dial in disease control by avoiding those fungicides ...

Michigan grower and MBG member Katelyn Craig likes to introduce her U-pick customers to new blueberries. When they come seeking Jersey or another old variety they picked when they were kids, she ...

Good Fruit Flashbacks A selection of articles from the Good Fruit Grower archive Celebrating 80 years of helping growers 1946–2026 To celebrate our 80th anniversary, our January 1, 2026, cover […] ...

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Josh is a second-generation farmer who graduated from Purdue University with a master’s degree in agricultural and biological ...

During the harvest of 1946, the absence of cash buyers was making growers nervous, writes publisher F. W. Shields in his column. In previous years, growers had found apple selling […] ...

Northwest Horticultural Council officials have asked that apples be included on the list of commodities in coming reciprocal trade discussions.” Sounds familiar, right? But in 1950, the industry was ...