Cherries Looking Good.

Time to check in again with NW Cherries BJ Thurlby and see how the cherry crop is doing.

THURLBY: We are picking aggressively and the industry itself is ramped up in a hurry. This weather we've had, for the most part, has been pretty good. We got a little bit of rain but over all very minimal damage where it did rain. A lot of growers are telling that they're thinking 1 or 2%. I have had some growers say they had 10 or 15% damage on a certain block that's close to ripeness but the weather during that rain period stayed cool

He says that of the 24 days they have been picking that only 4 of the 20 have not been very good because of weather.

THURLBY: As of today we've shipped about 6 1/2-million boxes. I'm happy with where demand is at. Coming into the Fourth I think we've still got a big push. There's plenty of opportunity out there in the market. There's numerous retail chains here in the United States that are still doing grapes and getting ready to go great guns on cherries and I'm really feeling good about the fruit that we've putting out there and the seek through that we are seeing. Right now all things are positive and it's all systems go on the cherry deal. The last 6 days we've shipped almost half a million boxes. You know that's peak season for us. That's a lot of fruit going out of here.

Thurlby says they still are on track to hit a 21 million box crop this year.

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