by Jill Burbery | Jun 26, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
When it comes to grading standards for the new Washington State University apple variety Cosmic Crisp, Washington’s industry is already charting new territory. Usually, grade standards for varieties are set by state statute, with input from the industry. Once those...
by Jill Burbery | Jun 23, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
The Washington state apple industry is re-inventing the way it does business. The industry is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a radically different strategy for introducing a new variety of apple, the Cosmic Crisp. A cross between the Enterprise and the...
by Jill Burbery | Jun 22, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
The first commercial trees were planted this spring of the new apple variety WA 38, following nearly a decade of research into the horticultural traits at four research plantings and the storage behavior of the fruit. Developed by Washington State University and...
by Jill Burbery | Jun 16, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
Washington apple growers planted 630,000 new Cosmic Crisp apple trees this spring and will plant an estimated 10 million more trees over the next two years to revolutionize variety offerings of the nation’s largest apple-producing state. MANSON, Wash. — Chris Anderson...
by Jill Burbery | Jun 8, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
PROSSER, Wash – Hundreds of thousands of trees bearing a brand new variety of apple are going into the ground in Eastern Washington. It’s the first major apple variety ever developed in Washington. It’s called the Cosmic Crisp — a cross between an...
by Jill Burbery | Jun 2, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
Apple orchards continue to expand in Kittitas County as fruit companies buy hay fields and replant them with new, and never before seen, varieties of fruit. A big reason for the change is because of the weather conditions in Kittitas County, which are milder than...
