Desmond R. Layne

Washington State University has launched a new tree fruit website and the first issue of a related newsletter, “Fruit […]

With the large domestic production of U.S. apples in recent years, Asian export markets (China, etc.) are vital. […]

Get educated with great resources in the tree fruit industry available at your fingertips.

Washington State University seeking to create searchable that website for tree fruit growers.

“Although the potential return on investment is huge, breeding programs are typically long-term, diverse and complex, labor-intensive, and expensive to run. Relying only on performance results of the parents, the odds are against any single cross providing an eventual superior new release.”

Over the next eight years, regionally adapted discoveries and innovations will help keep Washington growers profitable and sustainable.

Some European practices can be applied to modern high-density orchards to reduce sunburn, hail damage.

Some messages are worth hearing more than once — especially if we didn’t “get it” the first time […]

Some things you’ll never forget … It was a steamy July morning in 1977 out in the peach […]

In 1961, with the support of President John F. Kennedy, the U.S. Congress declared that “a principal objective […]

If you are a regular reader of my column, you may already be aware of the online peach […]

The first and most important thing that a grower can do to reduce the potential for cold damage […]

Elimination and/or management of uninvited weed species in your orchard seems like a never-ending exercise, doesn’t it? The […]

In 2011, where news can get around the world in a split second, it is interesting to see […]

The implications of improper fertility management are many. Supplemental fertilization is expensive. If nutrients are supplied in excess, […]

With the launch of our “Everything About Peaches” website in July 2010 (www.clemson.edu/peach), one continuously growing component of […]

When you drive through the orchard and see trees that are performing poorly or dying, it can be […]

In the financial world, investors range from risk takers to those who are risk averse. Some may invest […]

Beginning in 2010, I joined a team of scientists on a new federally funded four-year project through the […]

    I remember as a young boy in the early 1970s being with my parents and my grandmother […]