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Positive season expected

Canadian cherries escape cold weather damage

The degree days of 2013 have closely matched that of the 2007 growing season to date. It is expected to be a closer to 'normal' year with clearly defined spacing between the different growing regions. This will begin with a likely early start in the South Okanagan, helping to avoid the delays that have caused the Canadian harvest windows to overlap these past couple of seasons. The Spring of 2013 has been very challenging for the South Okanagan growers, having to deal with the cold temperatures reducing the early Canadian Cherry crop. However in Oliver, with a great location, healthy trees and a little bit of luck, most of the crop has escaped the cold temperatures with only minor damage. While some of the volume will be down in late June/July, the weather post-bloom has been ideal and excellent size and quality is expected.

The Kelowna/North Okanagan regions suffered very minor losses and the resulting fruit set is a great looking crop. July 17-20 is the planned start date for North Okanagan Cherries and will continue to harvest until Sept.1. Sandher Fruit Packers and Global Fruit are happy to report that as the new 160 acre Vernon planting continues to thrive, the first crop will be in 2014. Sandher Fruit Packers and Global Fruit are also happy to announce a new 60 acre planting in West Kelowna of early varieties; Skeena, Kordia, Regina and Lapin, which will provide a perfect balance to the Sweetheart, Staccato and Sentenniel varieties of the Vernon Orchard. The Creston Valley also experienced some of the frost thinning in the early Skeena and Lapins but the later varieties have an excellent crop this year. We are expecting a large increase in our late Creston production and our harvest window to continue until Sept 4-6.

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