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• FEATURE: Handy Apples
• FEATURE: Make every drop count: Simple changes can greatly improve spray application
• FEATURE: Are you the employer of choice? Apple producers look to mechanization to maximize labor.
• FEATURE: Electric orchard equipment
• FEATURE: Microsprinklers for the frost protection
• FEATURE: Watershed moment: Urban Eberhart has devoted his lifetime to water issues.
• FEATURE: Integrated water plan moves forward
• FEATURE: Going out strong: Columbia Basin Nursery is selling its last trees.
• FEATURE: Growers' ally: Tim Smith has always worked with the growers' interests in mind.
• FEATURE: Growers benefit from Smith's work: Tim Smith's research has put money back in growers' pockets.
• FEATURE: Cherry marketer finds his niche: Jesus Aguilar helps growers add value to their crops.
• FEATURE: Reducing food safety risk at every opportunity
• FEATURE: Angles or upright orchard systems? Growers and researchers weigh in.
• FEATURE: Spreading shoots or branches of young apple trees
• FEATURE: Grow it, then crop it: Let Honeycrisp grow.
• FEATURE: Choose the right rootstock for HoneyCrisp
• The good and bad of deficit irrigation: Partial root zone dying irrigation for white varieties.
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