Stranded Fruit Growers Say Will go Via M [ Kashmir Observer ] Jul 4, 2008  Fruit growers demand that the government must ensure safe passage for the trucks just as it provides security to the Amarnath yatris, threatening protests ... Read More ...

Cherry fest preserves a tasty slice of L [ ReporterHerald.com ] Jul 6, 2008  By Pamela Dickman By the 1980s, the commercial cherry orchards that once surrounded Loveland had died back to a mere memory. But the staff of the Loveland ... Read More ...

Hudak Fighting For Famers [ CKTB ] Jul 7, 2008  Hudak's 'Where Do We Grow From Here: A Way Forward for Niagara's Tender Fruit and Grape Growers' report, identifies current challenges and remedies. ... Read More ...

'We intend to become the fruit platform [ FreshPlaza ] Jul 7, 2008  We try and create additional value both for our growers and for our clients. In this way we try to become the fruit platform for Belgium, because that is ... Read More ...

Myer To Be Presented With Golden Pineapp [ Broadway World ] Jul 6, 2008  On August 10 at 6 pm , the festival wraps up with the Carmen Miranda Benefit & Fruit Cup Awards for best plays by audience vote: Golden ... Read More ...

Paul Thomson [ California grower of exotic tropical fruits ] Jun 16, 2008  Paul Thomson, a self-taught botanist who co-founded the California Rare Fruit Growers organization and helped expand exotic fruit-growing in the state, ... Read More ...

ECONOMIC BLOCKADE [ GreaterKashmir.com ] Jul 6, 2008  The ill-thought blockade has affected the economy of fruit growers in particular. Hundreds of fruit-laden trucks are stranded at the valley's exit point for ... Read More ...

TOUGH SEASON FOR NM FRUIT GROWERS [ Albuquerque Journal  ] Jul 7, 2008  By Steve Shoup HIGH ROLLS — Frost and elk have hit many fruit growers in the hills above Alamogordo this spring and early summer, with some orchards losing ... Read More ...

Grant to extend life of local pears [ St. Catharines Standard ] Jul 4, 2008  Local pear growers left without a market for their fruit upon the closure of CanGro Foods won't be left in the cold. The Tender Fruit Producers Marketing ... Read More ...

OSU Extension Tests Unconventional Ways [ Media Newswire ] Jul 2, 2008  CORVALLIS, Ore. th High-density, 'flat' pear orchards may gradually replace the conventional-looking 3-D variety if growers adopt a new system expected to ... Read More ...

Storm pummels orchards in Osoyoos, BC [ CTV British Columbia ] Jul 5, 2008  More than half of the orchards in the south central British Columbia community of Osoyoos were peppered with hail Thursday from the same weather system that ... Read More ...

Care home gets deep clean [ The Press Association ] Jul 4, 2008  It was the fact that two cases were discovered at the Quorn Orchards residential home within such a short period of time, understood to be about one month, ... Read More ...

But You Might Want to Dine on Watermelon [ Daily Green ] Jul 7, 2008  Bhimu Patil, a researcher and director of Texas A&M's Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center, is quoted in the article: 'Arginine boosts nitric oxide, ... Read More ...

Everything looks peachy for crop [ The Southern ] Jul 7, 2008  'As the peaches are harvested this month, we expect people lined up out here to get the very best peaches,' said Howard Mileur, owner of Mileur Orchards, ... Read More ...

A Week Behind Growers rush to get cherri [ Traverse City Record Eagle ] Jul 6, 2008  Even with the tardy crop he said there will be local cherries available for the weeklong celebration of the region's signature fruit. ... Read More ...

Fruit-tree borers produce problems for a [ Basehor Sentinel ] Jul 2, 2008  As a fruit grower, there can't be much more of a sick feeling. We should note that the tree is not to blame, as the likely culprit is the peach tree borer. ... Read More ...

• Fruit, veggie sector fights for mark [ Guelph Mercury ] Jul 7, 2008  In this month's edition of The Grower, the feisty, free-wheeling tabloid from the Guelph-based Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, chair Brenda ... Read More ...

Peach rustlers strike in Japanese orchar [ Telegraph.co.uk ] Jun 25, 2008  Known as 'Hanayome,' or 'bride peaches,' 5000 of the top quality peaches were plucked from an orchard in the village of Ubaguchi on Tuesday. ... Read More ...