Oregon Cherries Part 2
Oregon Cherries Part 2. I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report.Oregon Cherry Growers recently announced the addition of two new employees, one in sales - the other in marketing who will help drive the future of cherries in Oregon. Last year was a pretty good year for cherries and Tim Ramsey, Oregon Cherry Growers President and CEO takes a look into the crystal ball.
RAMSEY: It's early but I think that if you just start with Washington down, we're optimistic how the crop in Washington looks. I think as you move further south into the Dalles that area had a frost event in November if you remember when we had that cold snap. We're still accessing the potential affect that frost event had on the crop. We know that it will have an effect.
He says they have teams out accessing that damage.
RAMSEY: Everyone is guessing but we're not sure - and it could be where even though there was a frost event you can go through spring and have a terrific spring and bloom and polarization period and still come out with a good crop. You only need 20-30% of everything to set to have a very, very good crop.
Ramsey says they are keeping an eye on California.
RAMSEY: We hear, obviously they got some rain but it's going to take some long time, right, to get those water tables back and we're not sure if they've had enough cooling days to allow the trees to go dormant and produce the crop that they need as well.
That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network of the West.