by Jill Burbery | Sep 21, 2016 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
YAKIMA, Wash. — The countdown to takeoff for Cosmic Crisp has begun. Though commercial planting of trees won’t begin until next year and the apple be available to consumers until 2020, shipments of the variety could approach 5 million cartons by 2022. Cristy Warnock,...
by Jill Burbery | Sep 14, 2016 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
EPHRATA, Wash. — Ricardo Santacruz stoops over a small rootstock tree and slices a notch in its trunk a few inches above the ground so fast that if you blink you’ll miss it. With equal speed he slices a bud from a short chunk of Cosmic Crisp apple limb from a bundle...
by Jill Burbery | Jun 13, 2016 | Cosmic Crisp
Researchers Offer More Tips For Growing WA 38, Including Girdling. Stefano Musacchi, research horticulturalist for the Washington State University Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center, discusses the “click” technique of management on Cosmic Crisp plantings during...
by Jill Burbery | May 20, 2016 | Cosmic Crisp
YAKIMA, Wash. — Washington’s first newly bred apple variety is soaring in popularity a full four years before the first commercial crop is expected to hit the market. Developed by Washington State University Extension in Wenatchee, the new variety — Cosmic Crisp...
by Jill Burbery | May 17, 2016 | Cosmic Crisp
How One Apple Transformed Produce Purchasing Chefs and food lovers have long been some of America’s loudest health and environmental advocates. But over the last ten years, farm-to-table dining has spread from the elite tables of Northern California to the...
by Jill Burbery | Apr 19, 2016 | Cosmic Crisp
YAKIMA, Wash. — Orders for Cosmic Crisp apple trees, the new Washington State University variety, are taking off faster than anyone in the industry has ever before seen. The initial 2017 release, through an already completed grower drawing, will likely be 700,000...
