Why are bing sweet cherries so expensive?

[sixdogs]

2 lbs of cherry's, I think I ate that one time, then couldn't get off the couch my stomach hurt so bad...but they tasted so good

I'll bet you got up pretty quick from the couch when all that fruit kicked into the intestinal tract.

 

[forgeblast]

I'll bet you got up pretty quick from the couch when all that fruit kicked into the intestinal tract.

LOL!!

 

[bp fick]

75% of some cheery varieties are grown in the Grand Traverse area of Michigan. Last year, the freakish hot March caused the trees to blossom early and got caught by a late frost, wiping out the cherry crop. This year's crop won't be coming in for another month.

Most cherries here are being imported from Poland and other places. Supply and demand indeed.

 

[dmccarty]

I try to dry fruit to store and eat later in the year. Walmart had 1.5 pound packages of blueberries for $4-5. She bought four and I wish she had bought nine. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing: Our dehydrator has nine shelves and each package would fit on one. I put the berries through the food processor to sorta liquify the fruit and make fruit leather. Really simple and fast to do. The local grocery store had blueberries at $5 for 12 or 16 ounces and I usually have to throw away a fair number of the berries for being bad. Less than 10 berries out of six pounds were bad from Walmart and the variety tasted much better too.

Hopefully we can get a few more "loads" of blueberries done this season. Strawberries are next if I can time the local season.

I LOVE dehydrated cherries. Dehydrating the fruit intensifies the flavor and the cherries are awesome! :drool::laughing::laughing::laughing: The only problem with them is that they are more work. I have a pitter which works well but it is not as fast as blurring up blueberries. The cherries need to be cut in have too which takes more time but they are worth it. Sounds like I might not get many cherries dried this year.

Later,
Dan

 

[gino45]

Some strange comments here. Chile produces cherries, but not in June. Early season cherries are almost exclusively from central California, and they have had a terrible and well publicized drought there. So.................lousy crop this year. I've heard the same is true of apricots this year in California.

I agree that prices will come down if Washington has a good crop, but I'm pretty certain that Washington cherries aren't ripe yet.

 

[mjarrels]

Detroit needs the money.

yellow dot

 

[Bird]

This morning, our Denton Sam's Club has Bing cherries at $9.98 for 2 pounds and Rainier cherries for $10.98 for 2 pounds. In other words, Bings are $4.99 a pound. But I bought the 2 pounds of Rainier cherries. Then we went to the Walmart Super Center next door to Sam's Club and Walmart had the Bings for $4.98 a pound (yep, a penny cheaper and you didn't have to buy 2 pounds:laughing. But the Walmart store did not have the Rainier cherries.

 

[cqaigy2]

Yes, we like those little dried blueberry's too. Like a blast of flavor in your mouth.

 

[oosik]

I had three cherry trees - pie, bing & rainier - in my orchard and they grew past the pocket gophers eating the roots. They actually reached the summer of their third year and then they had fruit. That was the year the raccoons, ravens, squirrels, chip monks, black birds, magpies etc found the slightly ripe cherries and within two days there were no more cherries. The summer of their fifth year I pulled all three and ran them thru the chipper. I had become tired of nurturing those trees for all the animals. I never got one ripe cherry off any of the three trees.

 

[charlz]

I had three cherry trees - pie, bing & rainier - in my orchard and they grew past the pocket gophers eating the roots. They actually reached the summer of their third year and then they had fruit. That was the year the raccoons, ravens, squirrels, chip monks, black birds, magpies etc found the slightly ripe cherries and within two days there were no more cherries. The summer of their fifth year I pulled all three and ran them thru the chipper. I had become tired of nurturing those trees for all the animals. I never got one ripe cherry off any of the three trees.

Yep, I pick one each year and net it... whichever one looks like it is going to have the best crop. Once we have eaten, dried and given away cherries to the point we are sick of them I leave the net off... within hours the rest of the tree is picked clean.