As Cherry Trees Begin to Bloom, Cold Snap Damage Becomes Visible
Seradaye Lean, with Growers Supply Co., is an agrologist who works with fruit growers in the Okanagan.
"It’s extraordinarily variable from site to site, from farm to farm, variety to variety. It has been a real challenge to broadstroke an area. What I have been hearing is that some growers have said, and I have seen myself, that we have 50 to 70 percent of the crop. I talked to growers who have said they have a 30 percent crop, and some growers have said they have nothing to maybe a 10 percent crop. It’s all over the place," she said.
