Oregon Cherries

Oregon Cherries

Gip Redman with Oregon Cherry Growers is optimistic about this years cherry season and at the moment things look pretty good but whether it stays that way is anyones guess.

REDMAN: We don’t know at this point in time at least down in the Dalles and I don’t know that they know say in the Yakima Valley either. Tri-Cities probably has a better feeling for it but I haven’t talked to any of them lately. There was some damage done early in the winter between Thanksgiving and early December. We had some cold weather and that got some fruit.

Some early spring low dew point cold weather did a bit more damage as well.

REDMAN: You could see it at the bloom from both of them either as the bloom opened you could see the pistil was burned or had a discoloration on it and that usually means it’s not any good. Or the bloom was really small.

But Redman does say that after those events we have had some pretty good weather for growing cherries.

REDMAN: The pollination period for the most part has been really good. No too warm, not too cool. Mild nights so that the bloom didn’t blow up and happen too fast and the bees were active. If everything turns out like we’re all thinking it’s going to be a fairly large crop and nobody’s thinking that it’s the same size as last year year, it’s going to be bigger.

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.

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