Cosmic Crsip

The full crop is estimated at just over 134 million standard forty-pound boxes of fresh apples, a 28.8% increase from 2022’s 104.3 million boxes.

After years of development and months of anticipation by the consumer, it is finally here.  The apple cultivar, WA-38, better known as Cosmic Crisp officially hit American shelves on Sunday.  Toni Lynn Adams with the Washington Apple Commission said the first harvest, which took place mid-season around the time of Red Delicious, went smoothly.  She sai...

It’s a court battle brewing over the latest apple variety.  To meet the expected demand for Cosmic Crisp trees, Washington State University looked for help to generate as many trees as possible.  Enter Phytelligence, a Seattle-based company, which spun off from the university to propagate as many trees as possible.  WSU maintains...