With summer officially here, many of us will be looking to pick some sweet cherries for our July 4th gathering.
The majority of the fruit is grown in the Western U.S.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Ag Statistics Service representative Lance Honig explains where production stands right now.
“It’s looking like we’re going to have a bigger sweet cherry crop this year,” says Honig. “We’re expecting 369,000 tons this year. That’s up 13.5 percent over what was actually produced last year; in fact, it represents the largest production since 2017.”
Remarkably, the intense drought in the Pacific Northwest did not impact the sweet cherry crop. California and Washington expect gibber crops this year, but Oregon predicts smaller production.
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