Under normal circumstances, a bumper crop of cherries would be a good thing. But Washington state also had a bumper crop, which usually follows the Utah market, and Utah follows the California market.
There is some overlap between the end of the California cherry season and the beginning of Utah's season, and again with the end of Utah's season and the beginning of Washington's. Michael said that could cause the markets to have too many cherries.
"The price dropped," said Janna Tyler, owner of Nielson's Fruit at 2055 S. U.S. 89, "and we could not afford to pay our pickers and get the price out of them that we should have gotten because people can buy them elsewhere." Deseret News
