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In the year of the coronavirus, Michigan’s apple industry anticipates a healthy crop.

With the COVID-19 virus floating around, Michigan apple grower-shippers say they will make sure there is plenty of bagged product available.

Michigan apple suppliers say they are adjusting readily to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The demand for organic has infiltrated the sweet Vidalia onion world — a demand that’s rising incrementally year after year, growers and marketers say.

The Yakima, Wash.-based Northwest Horticultural Council has hired Riley Bushue as its new director of government relations and export programs, said Mark Powers, president.

Washington’s apple industry is evolving as new varieties slowly supplant older, established cultivars, marketers say.

The Washington Apple Education Foundation has a new scholarship resource website, www.scholarshipresources.org.

Pacificpro Inc. completed a transaction Aug. 1 to acquire the former Washington Harvest cold-storage and packing facility in Wapato, Wash., from Chuck and Annette Hankins, said Marcus Hartmann.

Organic apples out of Washington are a hot commodity and look to gain further ground in the coming years, marketers say.

Windstorms, wildfires and a revision of yields on trees is dropping Washington apple crop estimates for the 2020-21 season by 5-10%, according to the Washington Apple Commission.