Good Fruit Grower

GROWER OF THE YEAR Jeff Colombini DECEMBER 2013 www.goodfruit.com VOL. 64, NO. 17

• Cover Page
• A year of change
• The Top Five/ Five reasons to go to a winter meeting
• Should 12-row cherries be banned?
• Lottery planned for WA 38
• Grower comments wanted
• Orchards of the future
• Hedging your bets
• California grower has an open door
• Learn by doing
• Colombini, the collaborator
• Opportunities in olives
• Peaches and plums
• Growers come to festival bearing pears
• Pomology short course a hit with growers
• East Mailing Research turns 100 this year
• Northwest seeks food safety answers
• New Zealand's audacious plan
• Grower sees bright future
• A passion for research
• PICO has new direction
• Bloom thinning boosts fruit size
• Out from under the microscope
• Entrepreneur focuses on apple picking
• Chip detects water needs
• Old home x Bartlett?
• Going to market
• The Cold Train