Agriculture

Jan. 18—In business and agriculture, good timing — or the lack of it — can enhance or derail the best innovations, products and crops. Cherry growers in Washington state and the Northwest had a solid crop last year, harvesting 18.7 million 20-pound boxes of cherries. Unfortunately for them, California growers had a much later and larger than normal crop that prevented locally-grown cherries ...

Dec. 8—KENNEWICK — Economic pressures and new technology were themes at a gathering of Washington fruit growers this week. Hundreds of business owners, farmers, managers and other professionals who attended the Northwest Hort Expo and the Washington Tree Fruit Association's 119th annual meeting at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick to discuss new technologies and techniques. ...