Apples in Charts: Honeycrisp, the queen of the U.S. market

Average prices of Honeycrisp apples have been far higher than the rest of the pack, as can be seen in the USDA data illustrated in our charts.

May 22 , 2019

Blueberries in Charts: Prices enter their jumpy phase

Agronometrics highlights some of the particularities surrounding blueberries and predicts that prices will rise for a few more days and then drop back down as domestic volumes ramp up.

April 09 , 2019

The Biocontrol Brief: How to control two-spotted spider mites in strawberry production

The pest usually causes the majority of its damage early in the season, so special field scouting effort needs to be implemented from February to June in California and even into August in some locations (Santa Maria), and December to April in Florida.

March 13 , 2019

The Biocontrol Brief: Using conservation control to aid your pests' enemies

Two primary drivers for the need to implement conservation biocontrol are the use of broad range synthetic pesticides and monocropping.

February 20 , 2019

The Biocontrol Brief: Augmentative biocontrol, an efficient pest management solution

In part three of our educational series on biological control and integrated pest management, Thomas Grandperrin of UAV-IQ Precision Agriculture takes a look at augmentative biocontrol.

February 06 , 2019

The Biocontrol Brief: Discovering the classical biological control approach

In the second of our educational series on biological pest control, Thomas Grandperrin takes a look at the history and practice of classical biocontrol.

January 16 , 2019

Hawaii resumes avocado exports to mainland after 25-year hiatus

Weekly shipments of around 3,000 pounds of green-skinned Sharwil avocado to two Seattle-based wholesale produce companies began in early December.

January 03 , 2019

Italian apple orchard visit during Interpoma 2018

During the world's leading trade fair dedicated to apples, Fresh Fruit Portal got the chance to visit an orchard in one of the country's main apple-growing regions, South Tyrol.

December 06 , 2018

Flies play important pollination role in Arctic region, study finds

The abundance of a relative of the ubiquitous housefly has been found to impact the seed production of northern plants.

October 25 , 2018

Florida orange volumes forecast up by 76% in 2018-19

The Florida Citrus Mutual hopes this season will be a new start for growers in that state, which has been ravaged by citrus greening disease and was last year hit by Hurricane Irma.

October 11 , 2018