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Show Cherry crop late, but extra good Utah's sweet cherry crop, harvested near the end of the northwest cherry season due to a late Utah spring, provided pro-vided buyers nationwide with nearly four million pounds of high quality fruit at a time when "demand was still high but production elsewhere had dropped off," according to Robert McMullin, chairman of the Utah Sweet Cherry Marketing Board. Utah growers moved virtually all of their sweet cherries "under strong demand," de-mand," McMullin said, noting that the late harvest was "a blessing in disguise for our growers." We were fortunate to come in on the tail end of the season to meet the demand that other states couldn't fill." The state's cherries and other fruits were the only bright spot in Utah's agricultural picture this year, sustaining sustain-ing little or no damage in widespread flooding that affected nearly 200,000 acres of crop and pasture land. Despite a late winter and an unseasonably cold, wet spring that created earlier fears that the Utah fruit crop would not be adequately pollinated, many growers are anticipating an-ticipating a bumper crop of high quality quali-ty fruit. William Ferguson, Santaquin, chairman of the Utah Farm Bureau Fruit Committee, said the state's peach and apple crops will be larger than usual this year. "The quality of Utah apples this fall will be second to none " , "They'll be as good or be, ! anything Washington cann McMullin said Utah swe t' have been "excellent with, and sweetness." ' g0(X Date TEMPELRES July 19 U pt July 20 88 63 N July 2 1 88 59 j July 22 82 5 v July 23 82 S July 24 83 $t July 25 53 87 i Courtesy Sky West Airlines 1 |
