December is National Pear Month, not just because we hear about them in a famous Christmas carol, but because most of the ...

The Pacific Northwest, including Washington and Oregon, produce more than 80% of the nation's pears, said Ed Ing, a pear ...

Arias has been in the marketing business for various fruits for 25 years, and she said pears often take a backseat to apples and cherries in Washington’s fruit orchards. “In my opinion, pears have ...

WENTWORTH – Dalton “Dynamite” Johnson was quite simply – Dy-no-mite, as he led Rockingham to an impressive 87-60 win over Bartlett Yancey on Tuesday night. Rockingham senior point guard ...

Pears are one of the most popular fruit trees to grow around the world and growing a pear tree in your garden allows you to harvest juicy and sweet fruits that surpass any you will find in grocery ...

It may look pretty in bloom, but don’t be fooled—its blossoms stink, and so does its invasive ways! The callery pear (Pryus calleryana) is a medium-sized tree that was introduced to the U.S ...

A sniffer dog has been successfully trained to detect a tree disease as part of a “groundbreaking” project to protect the UK’s woodlands. Experts taught Ivor, a six-year-old cocker spaniel Labrador ...

A sniffer dog has been successfully trained to detect a tree disease as part of a “groundbreaking” project to protect the UK’s woodlands. Experts taught Ivor, a six-year-old cocker spaniel ...

However, these incredible trees are threatened by beech scale disease, also called beech bark disease (BBD) — a condition that can lead to significant damage or even kill the infected trees.

Therefore, accurate and real-time monitoring of nitrogen content in fruit trees has become the fundamental prerequisite for precision management of orchards. Furthermore, precision orchard management ...