UPDATED: Record Wash. cherry crop expected | The Packer

Cherries have shown the biggest increase from last year to this year. Try some, they are sweet and very good this year!

UPDATED: Record Wash. cherry crop expected | The Packer:

"A glut of cherries in Washington caused some growers to leave fruit on trees, but movement should increase and markets strengthen in the last two weeks of July, grower-shippers said.

A record Evergreen State cherry crop is expected this year, said Eric Patrick, marketing manager for Oakland, Calif.-based Grant J. Hunt Co., and Chuck Sinks, president of sales and marketing for Sage Fruit Co. LLC, Yakima, Wash.

Through July 20, Washington and Oregon had shipped about 11.2 million 20-pound equivalents of red cherries, up from 5.1 million last year and 7.3 million in 2007, the previous record for that time of year...."