by Jill Burbery | Nov 27, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
Cosmic Crisp hit the screen with a spot on CBS Sunday Morning. With special correspondent, Mo Rocca, describing the apple’s “sparkling, rosy cheeks, the Cosmic Crisp is pomological royalty.” He even ponders if Johnny Appleseed would approve of the new apple. Watch the...
by Jill Burbery | Nov 3, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
Washington apple growers are pinning big hopes on the Cosmic Crisp, having already planted 630,000 apple trees this spring. There will be an estimated 10 million more planted over the next two years. Read the original article in Capital Press, “Growers pin big hopes...
by Jill Burbery | Oct 5, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
In Washington, 360 million apples are picked per day, which if placed in a row will stretch from Seattle to Shanghai, and back, twice. That’s 17,000 miles of apples every day. Specifically, the Gala apple harvest is completed, and teams are moving on to Golden...
by Jill Burbery | Oct 4, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
Washington State University researchers recently shared their perspectives on growing the new Cosmic Crisp® apple variety at a field day south of Wenatchee. Those tips include that Mechanical pruning works well on Cosmic Crisp apple trees by the fourth year and...
by Jill Burbery | Sep 26, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
Washington State University made 300,000 Cosmic Crisp® apple trees available to growers this year, and the growers of these trees were picked through a random drawing. Growers who missed out on the lottery drawing will be able to purchase tree stock through WSU...
by Jill Burbery | Sep 13, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
In a rich, photographic article, NPR covers how Cosmic Crisp® is poised to be the fastest launch of a new apple variety in history. The fast launch is in response to the fact that some varieties, most notably Red Delicious, are falling out of favor among American...
