Michigan growers want to market fresh cherries

摘要

Are newer growing systems the key to bigger, better fruit! Fruit growers in the northeastern quadrant of the country are witnessing the ongoing clamor for sweet cherries, from consumers wanting them bigger, darker, sweeter, for longer—and, if possible, locally grown. These growers want to play a bigger part in supplying them. Michigan growers produce a fifth of the nation's sweet cherries, about 35,000 tons a year, but fnosuy for processing. In that market, they earn 20 to 50 cents a pound, and theycan sell cherries that are smaller and less likely to crack.