An early spring might sound like a good thing to you and me. An early spring to a Michigan fruit grower is a nightmare. So far, the fruit growers’ nightmares are not coming true. An extremely warm ...

Fruit flies are a nuisance wherever you may be. But growers in California are dealing with an insect problem on a whole other scale. Crops on the West Coast are facing a fruit-fly infestation, thanks ...

Goldenberries have long been a niche curiosity, tucked into specialty produce aisles and health food shops while tomatoes and ...

Fruit crops play an essential role in human food consumption, as important sources of vitamins and other micronutrients. The industry around the production of these crops is additionally a key source ...

Scientists are using CRISPR to fast-track the domestication of a wild fruit. For roughly 10,000 years, farming communities ...

Many temperate fruit and nut trees need a period of winter chill in order to produce flowers and fruit each year. Without enough sustained chilling, the timing of bud break and pollination, and the ...

Most years David Diebold would have plenty of peaches and apples to sell to the customers who visit his Benton, Mo., store every summer looking for the fresh fruit. The fruit would be as fresh as ...

Southwestern Michigan was under a Frost Advisory Friday morning. This came at a time where many fruit crops vulnerable as growing season continues. Hildebrand Fruit Farms owner Mile Hildebrand said ...

For two weeks in August, a crew of workers systematically confiscated every orange in Vince Bernard’s groves in Valley Center, Calif. They buried the oranges—at least $500,000 worth of fruit, Bernard ...

Starting next month in Marion county, scientists at Oregon State University will release a parasitic species of wasp to control an invasive pest that infests fruits as they ripen, costing half a ...

After years of weather-related setbacks and uncertainty, farmers across the Thompson-Okanagan experienced one of the best ...

Near-record to record cold is coming to Michigan in the next few days. Will Michigan’s fruit crops be damaged by the cold? Christie Apple, an agronomist specializing in fruit crops, has been looking ...