Latest updates for Good Fruit Grower

Fresh curated links around Good Fruit Grower are collected here so marketers can spot useful updates and turn timely ideas into posts faster.

Recent items include:

  • 1946: Another Bumper Peach Crop In Prospect For 1946 Season
  • A cherry grower’s strategy for sweet success
  • 1983: What fruit varieties should growers plant?

Post angles to try

Share the most useful takeaway for your audience.
Turn one article into a quick practical checklist.
Ask your audience how this shift affects their work.
Turn angles into scheduled posts

Fresh articles and ideas

Recent curated links from global sources. Generate one free draft from any story, then use SocialBu to schedule and refine your content calendar.

goodfruit.com /2 weeks ago

1946: Another Bumper Peach Crop In Prospect For 1946 Season

One marked difference about the pages of Good Fruit Grower 80 years ago was the prominence of soft fruits in those pages. Prunes, apricots, peaches, nectarines and more were domina...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

A cherry grower’s strategy for sweet success

—For David Geen, president of Canada’s Jealous Fruits, serving the export and North American markets amid competition from Washington’s heavyweight cherry industry requires strateg...

Read source
goodfruit.com /2 weeks ago

1983: What fruit varieties should growers plant?

Every downturn in fruit returns has pushed growers to consider what they should plant for the future. In this 1983 piece, guest columnist Albrecht Bacharach urges growers to make p...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

2000: Standout apple varieties coming from New Zealand

The era of open access to new apple varieties is over, New Zealand fruit breeder Allan White told Good Fruit Grower in 2000. Breeders need commercial partners to manage the rights...

Read source
goodfruit.com /2 weeks ago

1956: Cot, Prune Growers Discuss Problems

This 1956 photo story shows highlights of a Yakima Valley soft fruit growers meeting, where growers and researchers discussed the better Italian prune maturity standards and consid...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

1990: New varieties on a roll, and so is tester’s association

Eager for information on emerging varieties, the Pacific Northwest Fruit Tester’s Association spent two days touring plantings of Gala, Fuji, Braeburn and Jonagold apples, as well...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

June 2026 — Digital Issue

Featured stories about new varieties — and more — in this issue. Already part of our community? Log in here Our premium content is now only available to members. Join our commun...

Read source
goodfruit.com /3 weeks ago

Minnesota aims to breed fruit for all

—The University of Minnesota’s Superior Fruit Innovations program licenses new varieties to direct-market growers. The post Minnesota aims to breed fruit for all appeared first on...

Read source
goodfruit.com /2 weeks ago

Quick Bites — July 2026

Legendary Fruit announces intent to buy Gebbers Farms One of Washington’s largest tree fruit producers has signed a letter of intent to purchase a fellow industry titan out of bank...

Read source
goodfruit.com /2 weeks ago

July 2026 — Digital Issue

Featured stories about summer fruits — and more — in this issue. Already part of our community? Log in here Our premium content is now only available to members. Join our commun...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

Cherry growers trimming just a little off the sides

—Blaine Smith and other Washington cherry growers with planar canopies give their side branches a light trim about two weeks before picking, to aid airflow, color development and h...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

Washington apple industry welcomes a new processor

—French apple processor Manzana Products Co. is moving from California to the former Seneca Foods plant in Sunnyside, Washington, where it plans to double production of organic sau...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

2000: Apple industry urgently needs new products

Washington State University apple breeder Bruce Barritt began making crosses in 1994, planted his first trees in 1997, and by 2000, he was rushing through a young orchard, taking b...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

Making precise progress with tart cherry production

—Utah State University researchers have developed tools to measure yield variability in tart cherry orchards. Already part of our community? Log in here Our premium content is...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

The Timberline is a cherry like no other

— A family of Oregon growers found a cherry mutation with sweet flavor and an interesting look. You might say they got lucky. Already part of our community? Log in here Our pre...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

A money mindset for tree fruit farms

—Growers can’t “horticulture” their way out of the challenges they face, so Oregon State University Extension organized a business-related grower outreach event. The post A money m...

Read source
goodfruit.com /2 weeks ago

Predicting a peachy pace for harvest

—Colorado State University’s Ioannis Minas realized that the most pressing problem for his region’s peach growers was predicting the complex harvest timing to optimize maturity and...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

Harrison VanDeWalle, a young grower from Alton, New York

Harrison is a second-generation farmer who earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business management at the State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

Legendary Fruit announces intent to buy Gebbers Farms

One of Washington’s largest tree fruit producers has signed a letter of intent to purchase a fellow industry titan out of bankruptcy, which would create one of the largest fruit […...

Read source
goodfruit.com /2 weeks ago

Brenda Madrid, a young grower from Lynnwood, Washington

—Read more and watch the video interview for this exclusive Good Fruit Grower feature. The post Brenda Madrid, a young grower from Lynnwood, Washington appeared first on Good Frui...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

Growers have high hopes for high-elevation cherry orchards

—High-elevation cherry orchards hit a high-priced August market window, but getting there requires maintaining fruit quality through the midsummer heat that hits after most of Wash...

Read source
goodfruit.com /3 weeks ago

Training for taste testing

—Sensory scientists at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Summerland Research and Development Centre are training humans to evaluate fruit quality metrics and studying what consume...

Read source
goodfruit.com /2 weeks ago

Good Stuff, July 2026

Suterra acquires Vestaron’s assets and product lines Biological pest control company Suterra recently announced it has acquired the product lines, active ingredients and research a...

Read source
goodfruit.com /1 month ago

State’s rights for Cosmic Crisp

—As Washington State University extends the state’s Cosmic Crisp exclusivity period for another five years, growers opine on how their returns go down but the university still reap...

Read source

Turn fresh research into a full content calendar

Use SocialBu to discover ideas, generate post drafts, and schedule them across your social channels.

Sources covering Good Fruit Grower

goodfruit.com

Recent coverage from public sources
Public source