25 Feb 2025
Predicting sweet cherry hardiness is crucial for frost management, as early spring development makes them vulnerable to late frosts.
03 Feb 2025
Bumblebees play a key role in the pollination service, particularly during rainy or particularly cold periods. For this function they were one of the focuses of the 2025 edition of ‘Stone Fruit Day’, organised by Washington State University, on 22 January.
30 Jan 2025
A study involved collecting branches from trees located in mountainous regions of Turkey, at approximately 1,600 meters above sea level. After careful drying and grinding, the branches were processed into wood and bark particles with sizes smaller than 100 micrometers.
29 Jan 2025
Faced with this scenario, Patricio Morales proposes four key strategies to implement immediately, especially now that most cherry growers are in the peak of the post-harvest period.
17 Jan 2025
A low-quality plant will hardly be able to express its productive potential and if possible, it will have a high productive cost. This is the number one mistake when establishing a garden: it is important to be clear that a “good plant" is priceless.
14 Jan 2025
From 2018 to 2020, researchers from Moldova State University of Agriculture conducted a study aimed at assessing the impact of pruning on both the resting and developmental stages of cherry trees of the ‘Regina’ variety, grafted onto the MaxMa 14 rootstock.
14 Jan 2025
Facing the high temperatures expected this summer season, specialists at the INIA Quilamapu Regional Center of the Agricultural Research Institute suggest recommendations for farmers to mitigate the effects of heat stress on their crops.
13 Jan 2025
A two-year study conducted in the United States on two sweet cherry cultivars, “Emperor Francis” and “Ulster,” analyzed six different soil treatment strategies to identify the best solutions for improving tree growth and managing nematodes.
13 Jan 2025
Nanocellulose compounds are being tested on several crops, including sweet cherries, grapes and apples. According to research at Washington State University, nanocellulose sprays improve the cold resistance of sweet cherries by 3.6 to 7.2 degrees.
10 Jan 2025
The main objective of the work conducted in Chile in collaboration with the German research center for artificial intelligence was to predict the daily spatial variation of plant water potentials through the use of machine learning models.
