by Jill Burbery | Sep 1, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
Washington state will likely be the leader in organic apples in 2017. Approximately 10.8 million bushels of organic apples were harvested in the 2016-17 apple season, and estimates call for 13 million bushels this year. In conjunction with growing demand for organic...
by Jill Burbery | Sep 1, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
Join WSU for a fall field day discussing horticulture and tips to optimize fruit quality of WA 38, WSU’s newest breeding program release. With more than 637,224 WA 38 trees in the ground already, WSU and the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission are working hard...
by Jill Burbery | Sep 1, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
Washington State is ready to take the market lead for organic apples for 2017. Experts say that production has grown so much that Washington may have as much as fifteen percent of the total crop volume. Growers in Washington have the benefit of climate paired with the...
by Jill Burbery | Jul 12, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
Returning recently from the Forbes AgTech Summit, the workshops made me think about innovations and how those developments will shape the future of the produce industry. Automation in the field, new hybrid electric technology for trucks, the Internet of things and...
by Jill Burbery | Jul 4, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
It takes years to develop a new variety. Cosmic Crisp – the newest apple variety – was 20 years in the making and began at Washington State University under an experimental fruit-breeding program. It’s anticipated to edge out older fruit, such as the outdated red...
by Jill Burbery | Jun 27, 2017 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
Washington’s apple industry enters a new world this year as growers plant the first of what, in just three short years, will be 11 million trees or more of the popular new variety, Cosmic Crisp. If all goes as planned, production from those trees will eclipse the...
