Growing fruit trees in the Northwest can be a very rewarding venture. There is nothing quite like going out to the back yard and picking a handful of tree-ripened cherries, a juicy Asian pear or ...

When bees disappeared from central China years ago, Chinese apple farmers had to pollinate by hand. Embarrassing — people doing bees' work, but then came the big discovery –- a surprise that ...

ALTAMONT, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A local apple orchard is getting a big hand from a little friend. There’s a buzz in the air at Indian Ladder Farms in Altamont. “Every year the Rulison Family … ...

Even the quantity of calcium in an apple, for example, and its shelf life will decrease when pollination is inadequate. Properly pollinated apples have 7-10 seeds. Bad weather can also affect ...

A New York orchard recently called in local drone startup Dropcopter and its pollen-spreading UAVs to perform the world’s first apple orchard pollination by drone. Tools like this could help ...