Latest industry survey results show fruit growers’ complaints over minimum wage laws and H-2A labor issues continue.

Prices of fertilizers and pesticides are rising a lot faster than grower returns.

State of the Industry survey respondents indicate increased rainfall helping pests prevail.

A section of this year’s State of the Fruit and Nut Industry survey was dedicated to retired growers. And we heard back from almost three dozen of them!

Myriad solutions being tried by growers of the popular apple variety to prevent bitter pit.

Feedback from latest State of the Fruit Industry survey says growers wrestle with heat and heavy rain, but frost is enemy #1.

U.S. fruit growers, particularly those of berries, stay positive despite another year of rising input costs, extreme weather, and labor woes.

It’s the time of year again when we need your help to find out the real state of the fruit industry.

Even wine grape growers who report no shortage of labor say they’re paying through the nose.

Too bad more of the residue from California’s bountiful winter can’t be stored.

The era of HLB has some thinking about alternative crops.

Rising fertilizer costs and increased incidence of bitter pit topped the list of 2022 production challenges.

Disease, cold weather, market prices temper industry optimism.

Producers turn a profit through direct-to-consumer sales while also turning their farms into destination points.

This year’s American Fruit Grower State of the Industry survey took a half-dozen current risks to profit and asked our grower readers to rank them.

The millions of ‘trees planted in Washington over the past several years are not viewed favorably by other growers around the country.

Exceptionally bad weather kept growers on their toes throughout the growing season.

Between 60% and 70% of growers who bank on biological controls and precision agriculture express satisfaction with their purchases.

Producers spent 2022 battling many nuisances, including fire blight, spotted wing drosophila, birds, and deer. Some succeeded. Some didn’t.