Article: Apples without bruises. (apple bagging machines)
Agricultural Research;  August 1, 1991 ;     700+ words ......method used to bag the fruit. Agricultural Research...Golden Delicious apples to about a fifteenth...machinery used to bag the fruit was responsible...Conventional baggers gather apples in a pan that is...method claimed, the apples were bumping into each other, causing the fruit to ...

Article: BRAZIL: EMBRAPA ADAPTS NEW FRUIT TO THE SEMIARID.
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  March 4, 2009 ;     298 words ......commercial production of pears and apples, fruit typical of cold climates. This...Lopes believes that pears and apples may become important fruit for the agriculture of the...good results. Both pears and apples are fruit with great market potential...

Article: Fruit farming.(Brief Article)
U.S. Kids;  March 1, 2002 ;     504 words ......Africa, while apples, pears, and soft...provide fresh fruit to every part...world's favorite fruit for more than 2,000 years. most apples are dessert varieties...as bees do. The fruit from that crossing...tree varieties. Apples are bred for sweetness...

Article: Better fruit, healthier trees. (on use of calcium sprays)
Agricultural Research;  April 1, 1995 ;     543 words ......calcium than unsprayed fruit. Begun about 18 years...Golden Delicious apples, calcium sprays reduced...fairs that prove my apples are better than those...gets much better fruit coming out of storage...specific to various fruit crops. Before this...cause blemishes on fruit and leaves, ...

Article: Consumer preference of apples grown in northern Mississippi.
Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......best indicators of fruit maturity and quality...quality for Washington apples was obtained for fruit harvested 173 to...marketing and selling of fruit to consumers (Patte...Researchers have found that apples can be stored from...consumer preference for apples based on ...

Article: Firm Does Healthy Business Sticking Ad Labels on Fruit.(Brief Article)
Los Angeles Business Journal;  June 19, 2000 ;     700+ words ......radio ads, but apples and oranges. Courtesy of the Fruit Label Co., small...addition, at least for apples, consumers have...before they eat the fruit, meaning the consumer...related to the fruit on which the label...an apple pie? on apples.) Ask.com allows...

Article: Whitewashing Agriculture.(Agricultural Research Service, kaolin protects fruit trees)(Brief Article)
Agricultural Research;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......of clay. Empire apples harvested from...percent larger than fruit from trees left...prevents sunburn on apples and walnuts, he adds. Yes, fruit can suffer sunburn...sunburn damage on apples in half, Glenn...Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission...

Article: Where do apples come from?(Science)
Weekly Reader, Edition 1 (including Science Spin);  September 1, 2006 ;     668 words ...An apple is a fruit. An apple has seeds. What do you know about apples? Apple: From a Tree to Me...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 4 Trucks carry apples to stores. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] People buy the apples. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 3 The apples go into big wooden boxes...OMITTED] 6 CRUNCH! We eat the ...

Article: Apples.
Science Weekly;  October 9, 1996 ;     333 words ......as American as apple pie? Apples are America's favorite fruit to eat. Every year U.S. farmers grow enough apples for each of us to eat a bushel...right from the tree and tart apples used for cooking, baking and...juice. A Slice of History Apples have been an important food...Asia and had a ...

Article: All about apples!(SCIENCE)(Poem)(Brief article)
Weekly Reader, Edition K (including Science Spin);  September 1, 2007 ;     501 words ......apples. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Apples in Three Colors red yellow...What do you know about this fruit? Background Information Teaching about apples is an excellent way to present...an average of 19 pounds of apples each year. * The state of Washington grows the most apples in the ...

Article: What's bugging my apples?
Countryside & Small Stock Journal;  May 1, 2002 ;     490 words ...COUNTRYSIDE: I have several fruit trees, pears, apples, prunes. I would like to know what...curculio begin to lay when the fruit is about pea-size, and leave a...they don't realize the hard apple fruit will grow over the eggs, killing...

Article: Fruit and vegetables: their importance in the American diet.
Frozen Food Digest;  February 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......increase consumers' awareness of the nutritional value of fruit and vegetables and promote consumption. Use of Fruit and Vegetables Up Since the 1970's, the overall use of fruit and vegetables has increased --especially fresh noncitrus fruit, such as bananas, grapes, apples, avocados, ...

Article: Tending fruit trees.
Countryside & Small Stock Journal;  March 1, 2007 ;     630 words ......branches. Those roots take up any fertilizer and water. The fruit trees I've planted all bear their fruit at different times so I have some kind of fruit starting in early summer. The cherries and apricot bear their fruit, then the apples in late June through early July. Next come the ...

Article: Opening of Indonesia's market bears fruit for U.S. producers.
AgExporter;  April 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......today are oranges, apples and grapes, accounting...all non-tropical fruit imports. Indonesia...in 1991 and U.S. apples have increased...trade in fresh fruit are even greater...order of demand for fruit is: oranges, bananas, apples and papayas; among...