date:Jun 29, 2012
nias crop also was reduced by frost with 2012 production forecast at 2.5 million lbs, down 22% from last year.
The Pacific Northwest fared better. Production in Utah, normally the second largest tart cherry producing state, was forecast at 34 million lbs, down 3% from 2011. Production in Oregon was unchanged from 2011 at 2.5 million lbs. Washington, usually the third largest growing state, was the only one of the seven major states to see a larger crop. Production there was forecast at 27 millio