More from KUOW Business Dry, Hot Washington Summer Produced Smaller Apples KUOW | By Matt Martin Published October 28, 2015 at 2:32 PM AKDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 4:54 Flickr Photo/quilldancer (CC BY NC ND)/http://bit.ly/1kbQWWP 'Apple beauty contest' David Hyde spoke with Yakima Valley apple grower Ric Valicoff about increasingly hot and dry conditions in Central Washington and how that could affect the future of the fruit tree industry.