WENATCHEE - Smile, sweet thing. You're on camera. Every dark-sweet cherry zipping through the GP Grader, an electronic sorting device at the heart of Stemilt Growers' new cherry packing line, will ...

Despite drought concerns, rising production costs and unpredictable weather, local orchard owners and industry leaders remain ...

This is turning out to be a very good season for Washington cherry growers. It could be a record harvest, with an increasingly global reach. Asia has a growing appetite for Northwest cherries, but ...

EAST WENATCHEE — Northern Fruit is going high-tech in its quest to stay competitive in the global fruit market. The East Wenatchee-based grower, packer and exporter of apples and cherries is turning ...

Washington reigns over U.S. cherry production, generating more than twice the tonnage of sweet cherries than the next two leading states, Oregon and California, combined. Yet behind the numbers, ...

Witnesses say two men were seriously injured when a helicopter working to dry cherries in an East Wenatchee, Wash., orchard clipped a power line. The Wenatchee World reports the crash happened Tuesday ...

WENATCHEE, Wash. - A crackdown on illegal immigration could leave cherry growers without enough pickers, as the crop ripens in a few weeks. The manager of the Washington Growers Clearinghouse in ...

Gebbers Farms filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection June 4. One day later, Legendary Fruit Company of Chelan announced ...