date:Jul 04, 2017
fruit. And also the fact that we are a long ways north puts us into the August marketing window when the U.S. is pretty much out of the game, said Geen.
Two years ago, BC struck a trade deal to allow cherry producers unfettered access to the lucrative Chinese market.
A record $29.7 million worth of BC cherries were shipped to China in 2015 but that plummeted more than 40 per cent to $16.8 million last year due to widespread crop damage.