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The Tart Cherry Industry
In 1996 the USDA did a study on the tart cherry industry. While the study was done for assessing risks as part of a crop insurance report, it is full of information that is of general interest about tart cherries, their culture and uses.
Use the table of contents below, or browse trough page by page by using the next page links.
Tart Cherries
table of Contents
- Summary
- Introduction
- The Tart Cherry Tree
- Varieties
- Pollination
- The Tart Cherry Industry
- Location
- Farms with Tart Cherries
- The Tart Cherry Market
- Supply
- Demand
- Prices
- Environmental Requirements and Production Practices
- Climate
- Soils
- Orchard Sites
- Propagation and Planting
- Orchard Management
- Harvesting Tart Cherries
- Processing Tart Cherries
- Marketing Tart Cherries
- Production Perils for Tart Cherry Growers
- Frosts and Freezes
- Excessive Rain
- Excessive Heat
- Hail
- High Winds
- Diseases
- Insects
- Birds
- State Analyses - State by State View
- Michigan
- Colorado
- New York
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Utah
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- References
from Tart Cherries
An Economic Assessment of the
Feasibility of Providing Multiple-Peril Crop Insurance
Prepared by the Economic Research Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture
for the
Office of Risk Management |
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