Good Fruit Grower

May 15

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4 MAY 15, 2016 Good Fruit Grower www.goodfruit.com Good Fruit Grower is on Twitter and Facebook. Follow us @goodfruit grower. Like us at www.facebook.com/ goodfruitgrower. Managing Editor O. Casey Corr casey.corr@goodfruit.com •  509-853-3512 Senior Editor Shannon Dininny shannon@goodfruit.com •  509-853-3522 Associate Editors Ross Courtney ross@goodfruit.com •  509-930-8798 Dave Weinstock dave@goodfruit.com •  616-970-4735 Advertising Manager Doug Button dbutton@goodfruit.com •  509-853-3514 Advertising Sales Rick Larsen rick@goodfruit.com •  509-853-3517 Theresa Currell theresa@goodfruit.com •  509-853-3516 Design/Production Manager Jared Johnson jared@goodfruit.com •  509-853-3513 Digital Producer TJ Mullinax tj@goodfruit.com •  509-853-3519 Design/Production Aurora Lee aurora@goodfruit.com •  509-853-3518 Audience Development Manager Maria Fernandez maria@goodfruit.com •  509-853-3515 Advisory Board Lindsay Hainstock, Denny Hayden, Steve Hoying, Jim Kelley, Desmond Layne, Jim McFerson, Ian Merwin, Todd Newhouse, Don Olmstead, Mercy Olmstead, Marvin Owings, Mark Roy, Mark Tudor, Chris Van Well, Mike Wittenbach U.S. SUBSCRIPTIONS: $35.00 per year, 3 years $75.00. CANADIAN SUBSCRIPTIONS: $55.00 per year (U.S. funds, Canadian G.S.T. included: G.S.T. Registration #135100949). SUBSCRIPTIONS OUTSIDE U.S.A. & CANADA: $100.00 per year (payment by credit card only). Single copies of current issues are $5.00. To subscribe, call 1-800-487-9946. Good Fruit Grower (ISSN 0046-6174) is published semimonthly January through May, and monthly June through December, by the Washington State Fruit Commission, 105 South 18th Street, Suite 205, Yakima, WA 98901-2149. Periodical postage paid at Yakima, WA, and additional offices. Publications Mail Agreement No. 1795279. The publication of any advertisement is not to be construed as an endorsement by the Washington State Fruit Commission or Good Fruit Grower magazine of the product or service offered, unless it is specifically stated in the advertisement that there is such approval or endorsement. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Good Fruit Grower, 105 South 18th Street, Suite 217, Yakima, WA 98901-2177. © 2016 by Good Fruit Grower Printed in U.S.A. 105 S. 18th St., #217, Yakima, WA 98901 509 ⁄ 853-3520, 1-800-487-9946, Fax 509 ⁄853-3521 E-mail: growing@goodfruit.com ww.goodfruit.com ©2016 no reproducTion or display wiThouT wriTTen perMission. growing with growers since 1946 Sign up for eFlash. Get Good Fruit Grower reports delivered right to your inbox. www.goodfruit.com/ eflash-signup. On the Web On the cover A cherry orchard in Dry Hollow near The Dalles, Oregon. by Phil hull, yakima, Washington Good Grape Grower 54 Red blotch research More studies coming after researchers confirm treehopper as disease's first known vector. Good to Know 30 Little cherry disease An update on the latest research into leafhopper vectors that spread LCD. 56 Grape powdery mildew How research led to improved control and big cost savings in fighting grape disease. Also in this issue 8 Piece-rate pay guidelines Officials offer key steps to help growers following last year's court ruling. Last Bite 62 Young grower Q&A with Neil Garrison. Departments 57 Good to Go 58 Good Deals 61 Classifieds 61 Advertiser Index Special Report: Spotted Wing Drosophila 46 How to stop a proliferate pest? Growers and researchers are furiously working to control the spread of SWD. 48 Under pressure Northwest has seen SWD increase each year, but 2015 was the most challenging so far. 50 Breakthroughs in the lab California research sounds like sci-fi. 52 Organic control Studies look into stopping SWD without the use of chemicals.

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