date:Apr 01, 2013
about the challenges facing the industry. The biggest problem was increased head-to-head competition from Washington-grown cherries.
Now Washington is planting later and at higher elevations, so this will happen more and more, McGlynn said about the market competition.
More than half of the small-acreage cherry growers in the Flathead belong to the cooperative that takes the cherries to Washington for processing.
In the past, Washingtons cherry harvest finished just as the Flathead cherries