It looks like fruit growers dodged major damage from a hard freeze Sunday night. A moderating breeze off Lake Michigan kept the temperature above the danger point in many...
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By Bob Allen
By now it’s well-known that the state’s tart cherry crop was basically wiped out by unusual spring weather this year. Michigan is the top producer of tart cherries in the country.
But perhaps worse than that,...
By Bob Allen
By now it’s well-known that the state’s tart cherry crop was basically wiped out by unusual spring weather this year. Michigan is the top producer of tart cherries in the country.
But perhaps worse than that,...
By Bob Allen
When you scoop up ice cream with cherries in it this summer or add dried cherries to your salad, chances are the fruit won’t be from Michigan. Or even from the United...
By Bob Allen
A spring freeze last week across Northwest Michigan killed more than half of the buds on tart cherry trees. Industry officials estimate the loss for the region in the 50 to...
A cherry orchard near M-72 in west Grand Traverse County has apparently lost several acres of trees to vandals.
Michael Kroupa owns the 110-acre Legacy...
There is some good news about the main crop in Northwest Lower Michigan. The sale of tart cherries jumped up last year. The industry sold almost 270 million pounds of...
This spring the cherry trees were full of blossoms in Northwest Michigan and growers expected to see a bumper crop. But now that the fruit is being harvested it looks like...
Matt Gregory has played, hunted and worked in his family's rolling cherry orchards in Leelanau County all his 34 years.
Now, he also makes wine here.
"My...
Some fruit growers in Michigan are asking federal regulators to back off a deadline for phasing out Guthion, a widely used pesticide on cherries and apples. Some cherry...
