Honig: Cherry Crop Has Not Been Greatly Impacted By Heat

Farmers across the west have been plagued this year by extremely dry weather, including producers right here in the Pacific Northwest. Yet, NASS' Lance Honig said right now, it looks like one of the biggest crops in the region has not been greatly impacted.

"Sweet cherries not so much suffering from that situation that obviously represented by the fact that we're expecting a larger crop this year and fairly close to being in line with what we would typically see."

In fact, the nation's top two sweet cherry producing states, Washington and California, are expecting year over year increases in crop production this season.

"It's looking like we're going to have a bigger Sweet cherry crop this year. we're expecting 369,000 tons this year and that's up  13.5 % over what was actually produced last year. in fact represents that largest production since 2017."

Honig added the larger crops in Washington and California offset lower sweet cherry production in Oregon this year. 

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