Oregon cherry growers seek emergency aid after climate change ruined this year's harvest: 'It all fell apart'

Weather affected this year’s fruit and pushed California’s huge harvest season back overlapping into Oregon’s.

HOOD RIVER, Ore. — Oregon cherry farmers are seeking access to critical resources and federal funding from state leaders amid a third bad crop season as a result of climate change.

Weather affected this year’s fruit and pushed California’s huge harvest season back overlapping into Oregon’s. And farmers are losing a lot of money as their typical month-long harvest season was cut to less than two weeks this year. 

“Never have I had a time where I had to walk away from so many cherries and it’s really just

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