Due to a banner crop of cherries, the market has been flooded with too many cherries. Farmers are seeking a declaration of a disaster.
The story is complicated due to California’s extended season (due to cold and wet weather, not global heating), which changed market timing and availability across the west coast. The result was too many cherries all at once, lowering prices
We don’t normally think of too much production as a disaster but here we are. In all seriousness, agriculture is a tough business, frequently dependent on weather or market conditions outside the control of the farmer. I view those working in ag as the most important workers in our society. Without them, we’d all starve.
The media blamed climate change – when the proper attribution is “weather”:
Blaming “climate change” for weather events is a bit over the top. But today, all weather – hot, cold, warm, cool, drought, heavy rain, snow or lack of snow – is due to climate change. Anything different than the “average” (which has wide variation) is now considered “climate”.
