’Never seen a crop this low’: Okanagan cherry farmers having a terrible year
A budding disaster is unfolding across the Okanagan-Similkameen.
Now that blossoms are starting to appear, cherry growers are realizing they face a significant crop loss from this past winter’s extreme cold snap in mid-January.
“We have never, never seen a crop this low,” says BC Cherry Association president Sukhpaul Bal, whose family has farmed on Kelowna’s Rutland bench for several decades.
