Rain at the wrong time eating into already depleted cherry crop
It’s the last thing cherry growers in the Central Okanagan needed.
Rain, including heavy downpours have come at exactly the wrong time for orchards struggling to get a crop off after devastating cold froze buds this spring.
“It’s quite a down crop overall so that’s where we’re kind of needing every cherry that’s on the tree right now to get to market. And rain and any other events that may happen can really impact that,” said Sukhpaul Bal, president, BC Cherry Association.
