We talk with WSTFA President Jon DeVaney about everything broadly; then discuss the upcoming FIRA USA conference in Yakima with Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission Exec Dir Ines Hanrahan; Next we talk with Shawn Gay and Gilbert Plath, Chair and Co-Chair of the WSTFA Annual Meeting coming up in December; and finally, we talk with Good Fruit Grower Editor Kate Prengaman about the Cherry Institute annual meeting that will partner with the WSTFA annual meeting for the first time this year and what that means for the industry and Good Fruit Grower!

WSTFA President Jon DeVaney talks golf, industry struggles, and apple estimate changes. Good Fruit Grower Managing Editor, Shannon Dininny shares some upgrades the long-time source of industry news is making. And Tyler Price, Board Chair at the Washington Apple Education Foundation gives us an update on the scholarships going out to students from the tree fruit industry.

We talk with WSTFA President Jon DeVaney, WA State Fruit Commission President Eric Patrick, and WSU's Jeremy Tamsen.

This episode of Bearing Fruit shares some conversations we had with folks at December's WSTFA Annual Meeting in Wenatchee, along with a chat I had with a WSTFA lobbyist during Tree Fruit Day in Olympia last month.

Harvest related topics include how apples and pears have been doing this season, the upcoming WSTFA Annual Meeting in Wenatchee, and H-2A reform and how that is going.

Washington apple harvest for 2025 is upon us and we talk with Washington State Tree Fruit Association president Jon DeVaney and Washington Apple Commission president Michael Schadler about this season's forecast and what to expect from this year's crop as harvest gets underway.

We talk with WSTFA President Jon DeVaney about cherries and other tree fruit-related subjects. Then we are joined by Karley Lange, the Domestic Promotions Director for Northwest Cherries, to tell us about the estimates for the upcoming crop and what to expect in the weeks ahead when the cherries are on store shelves.

On this episode of Bearing Fruit, we talk with former and returning Executive Director of the Washington Apple Education Foundation Jennifer Witherbee about return to the post and what WAEF is up to this year. We also talk with Larry Mattson, the new Director for the Office of Columbia River about what growers should expect from the water supply in 2025.