‘What cherry harvest?’
While cherry size and quality are good in 2022, bad weather severely affected the overall size of the crop, but what was harvested was above average in quality, growers said.
Cheryl Schweizer/Columbia Basin Herald
Snow in April, rain in May and June, cold weather that kept bees in the hive during pollination season all combined to have a major impact on the 2022 cherry crop.
While cherry size and quality are good in 2022, bad weather severely affected the overall size of the crop, but what was harvested was above average, growers said.
Cherries on the tree in a local orchard. The 2022 cherry harvest was much smaller than projected, due to poor weather conditions in the spring.
ROYAL CITY — There are short and long crops in the tree fruit business, good and bad years, and then there are those years, those harvests, the ones few growers - if any - remember fondly. The 2022 Pacific Northwest cherry harvest may be one of those.
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