"As the cherry develops and gets its sugars, they're exploding."
"The most significant cost is picking and packing … so we did the numbers and it didn't pay us to pick those varieties that were so affected."
"It's been the worst I've seen in such a short space of time, [and] what made it more severe was the high humidity, and high temperatures,"he said.
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