Justin Bedwell, President, Bari Produce<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">We will begin harvesting everyday beginning the week of the seventh. Mother Nature did not do us justice with the blooms. Some trees were in full bloom while others of the same variety were not ready to go in those same varieties. We had wind. We had a little bit of hail, we had rain late in the season. It has been a challenging year. We are at 25% to 40% volume of what a normal crop would yield. A combination of the weather, Mother Nature, and the Blooms sequence and cycle has caused there to not be a lot of cherries out there. Once we get into the Lodi area, which are the Bing varieties, in the first part of June, volume will go back to normal.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">David Thiessen, Sales Manager, Stillwater Orchards<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">We hope to start harvesting around the 20th of this month. All of our cherries are grown in the Sacramento Delta area. We will be harvesting red cherries, Tulare, Chelan, Garnet, naturally Bing and Rainier. We had a really warm January and February then we got plenty of rain in March. We had some rain in the bloom period and the bloom was extended. Hopefully, this warm weather will continue. When we get up into the Northern areas it looks like it will be a good crop. I think there will be good promotable volumes in Cherries from California.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Ken Carter, CMO, Rivermaid Trading Co.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">We will start harvesting in Kern County and then we'll move to Fresno County. Early on, we didn't have great weather which is why the cherry crop will be very light the first 25-30 days of the season. Right now we are going into an excellent weather pattern. The Bing varieties in the North are going to be where the opportunities are in California, with good promotable supplies in the second and third weeks of June.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
