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According to USApple the first report of fresh and processing apples in storage is incomplete, thanks to the government shutdown.

Last week, the Washington Apple Education Foundation announced the winners of the 2025 Year of the Apple Art Contest sponsored by Corteva Agriscience.  This year, 45 submissions were received from high school students across central Washington.  Entries...

Tree fruit growers across Washington, and the Northwest, are struggling to make a profit.  What needs to change to allow growers to benefit from their commodity?  We put that question before the Washington State Tree Fruit's Jon DeVaney.   ...

Trade and tariffs have been in the news for several months.  How are local apple growers being impacted?  Jon DeVaney with the Washington State Tree Fruit Association has more.     If you have a story idea for the PNW Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail glenn.vaagen@townsquareme... Read More ...

Snowpack and reservoir levels are already creating concerns for irrigators in the Yakima Basin.  But it looks like, according to one expert, that Mother Nature will help in other ways this year.  When it comes to the temperatures growers can expect this season, Drew Lerner, Senior Agricultural Meteorologist at World Weather, Inc., said central Wash...

Some encouraging news for Apple growers after producer prices dropped to a four-year low last April in both nominal and real terms.   "Fresh apple grower prices reported by USDA NASS began to slowly increase in the first six months of the 2024-2025 marketing year,” said USDA economist Catharine Weber.  She added app...

The Washington Apple Commission's Jennie Strong talks about the latest international marketing efforts in today's Focus On Fruit.     If you have a story idea for the PNW Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail glenn.vaagen@to...

In today's Focus On Fruit, we get the latest from the Washington Apple Commission.     If you have a story idea for the PNW Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail glenn.vaagen@townsquaremedia.com 

According to the latest numbers from USApple, the total number of apples in storage on February 1st was 130 million bushels, 5% less than last February 2024’s total of 137 million bushels.  This month’s number is also 11% higher than the five-year average.   Fresh ap...

According to a labor cost study for Washington Apples, labor costs consumed 99% of grower net returns per bin in 2023. That figure is considerably higher than the 37% per bin reported in 2013.  Mark Powers, President of the Northwest Horticultural Council said this data supports what growers have been saying for the past couple of years.  He said if t...