News Items tag as: Okanagan cherries

Fruit growers face tough decisions on foreign labour after losses
February 26, 2024 - 7:00 AM
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The Okanagan fruit industry is heavily dependent on thousands of temporary foreign workers in order to get the crop growing properly and harvested.
Up to 80% of Okanagan peach crop wiped out by winter cold snap
February 16, 2024 - 6:00 AM
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The cold snap in the southern Interior earlier this winter wiped out roughly three-quarters of stone fruits like peaches, apricots, plums and nectarines.
January deep freeze devastated BC Southern Interior cherry crop
February 12, 2024 - 6:00 PM
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Cherry growers in the Southern Interior fear a deep freeze earlier this year will greatly reduce cherry crops this coming season.
Cherry acreage continues to climb as apples decline in the Okanagan
April 23, 2023 - 7:00 PM
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Two owners of lands just east of Kelowna are working to develop more than 1,000 acres of higher elevation cherry orchards.
Okanagan cherry orchards sail through bitter cold winter
April 19, 2023 - 6:00 AM
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Last year’s early winter was actually a bonus for Okanagan cherry growers.
Okanagan cherry crop 'looking very good' as first fruit of season ready in Osoyoos
June 09, 2021 - 6:00 AM
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There’s optimism in South Okanagan cherry orchards this year as the picking of the first of this year’s crop gets underway in Osoyoos.
South Okanagan cherry growers might find a brightside to early frost damage
April 16, 2021 - 6:00 AM
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This week’s sunny days have been followed by some cooler than normal nights, which has resulted in some blossom damage to South Okanagan cherry trees.
Harvest is no bowl of cherries for Okanagan growers this year
July 11, 2020 - 6:30 AM
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The cherry harvest has been in full swing in the southern part of the valley for several weeks now, with picking in the central part of the valley getting underway this week.
For cherry growers, it's time for the rain to stop
June 26, 2020 - 7:30 AM

It’s crunch time for Okanagan cherry growers preparing to harvest early-ripening varieties as June rains threaten a crop already hurting from poor weather earlier in the year.
Cherry season is already underway in the South Okanagan
June 12, 2020 - 6:30 AM
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In spite of a brutally unseasonal start to June weather, the Okanagan cherry season has begun with fruit stands in the Osoyoos area already selling this year’s earliest-ripening varieties.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
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Kelowna distillery to pay former employee $60,000 in unpaid wages
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Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

West Kelowna, Kamloops fall behind BC government's 'unrealistic' housing targets
Both West Kelowna and Kamloops are failing to meet the province's housing targets, and politicians at the Okanagan city are frustrated. West Kelowna built 64 net new housing units over the past six months, and the BC government expects

News Items tag as: Okanagan cherries

Fruit growers face tough decisions on foreign labour after losses

Up to 80% of Okanagan peach crop wiped out by winter cold snap

January deep freeze devastated BC Southern Interior cherry crop

Cherry acreage continues to climb as apples decline in the Okanagan

Okanagan cherry orchards sail through bitter cold winter

Okanagan cherry crop 'looking very good' as first fruit of season ready in Osoyoos

South Okanagan cherry growers might find a brightside to early frost damage

Harvest is no bowl of cherries for Okanagan growers this year

For cherry growers, it's time for the rain to stop

Cherry season is already underway in the South Okanagan

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