Items Tagged with 'stone fruit'

In this opinion piece, Ian LeMay, president of the California Fresh Fruit Association, sends this SOS to retailers and consumers for the stone fruit industry.

A company that has brought to the marketplace an autonomous strawberry harvester says it has raised $25 million to mechanize apple picking.

Fewer acres of California farmland are dedicated to growing stone fruit compared to 10 years ago when growers of freestone peaches and nectarines voted to end the California Tree Fruit Agreement. But apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums, prunes (which USDA distinguishes from plums in its data) and sweet cherries continue to perform well.