The harvest data shows that Washington farmers are likely to have the worst yield in about 40 years, said Jon DeVaney, ...

The Washington State Tree Fruit Association estimates around 10.6 million 44-pound boxes of pears will be harvested in the Northwest region — a 31 percent decrease from the past five-year a ...

Bad winter weather and a record-setting freeze in January hit hard in Washington and Oregon, damaging much of this year's ...

The Washington State Tree Fruit Association estimates around 10.6 million 44-pound boxes of pears will be harvested in the ...

Would you pay $50 for six pears? Luxury fruit—a longtime cultural staple in Asian markets—has finally made landfall in the US ...

Gottschalk is the apple and pear geneticist and breeder at Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville, West Virginia ...

Meanwhile, there’s a strong crop in the Columbia Gorge and Yakima Valley growing districts, said Doug Gibson, vice president ...

A summer of warm, sunny weather with a smattering of rain has many tree-fruit growers on Prince Edward Island smiling as the ...

Tuesday is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the harvest festival in China and in several other Asian countries. And while every ...

Harvest progress has slowed down over the past two weeks as rain and humid conditions have led to stop-start progress. The focus will now be on preserving quality in later harvested crops. Straw from ...

B.J. Thurlby, president of Northwest Cherry Growers, said in an interview in June that the industry was "in trepidation" at the thought of another bad harvest year. Luckily, those fears were ...

GEORGE, Wash. — It began in 1997 with two brothers branching out from potatoes and alfalfa into a tantalizing new adventure of growing their first 100 acres of winegrapes on Washington’s ...