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Oregon sweet cherry growers produced a beautiful crop but are calling this year a disaster.
Due to the migrant labor shortage and problems with packing plants, their cherries may not reach the market.
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oregonlive.com/business/2025/0…

‘A disaster of a year’: Oregon farmers say 2025 is a sour season for sweet cherries

Labor shortages and challenging market conditions are marring the harvest season of Oregon's fourth most valuable fruit.
Eddy Binford-Ross | The Oregonian/OregonLive (oregonlive)
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...and yet I found abundant cherries in the Mexican market I shopped at days ago, and they were half the price per lb. that Walmart was selling cherries for. Just sayin'. Tariff? What tariff? Trump is doing a great job of taking American markets off the market and Mexico is poised to take a big American market share.
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In my area, sweet cherries come from the San Joaquin Valley. Right now, they are bountiful and cheap, in some stores well under $3/lb. Walmart has them for about $5/lb. Despite ICE raids they are still being picked.🤔
Not sure where Oregon cherries are sold.
Markets in those places will have a hard time.
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@claralistensprechen5th

Everything #tRump touches turns to 💩

The farm workers who haven't been deported are afraid to go to work now.
This could be the start of the downfall of American farms.

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@maddad @claralistensprechen5th
I volunteer for a food pantry that serves many migrant field workers and their families. We are seeing fewer of them. Some are afraid to leave their homes. There is a local group that is delivering food staples to their doors.
We had a big raid nearby this afternoon. National Guard and ICE teargassed protesters. They want to intimidate us all.
When farms go under, there will be wealthy people and big corporations to buy them up at pennies on the dollar.
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Buying up farms still won't give those farms workers, so those rich SOBs will STILL have no choice but to buy imported foodstuffs--and sure, those SOBs can afford caviar--but they'd best see to it that all their other non-rich workers get fed or their purchases would lose value like a meteorite loses altitude.
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@claralistensprechen5th

In all my lifetime, I never ever thought I would ever see things like this going on in America. It's like a bad movie, but it's real.

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Barbara Monaco
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@maddad @claralistensprechen5th Me too. I grew up in an era where the vast majority of my fellow citizens were antifascist to the bone. Now many have forgotten, or never learned, the importance of nipping authoritarianism in the bud.
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@jferg I'm meeting with a friend/cherry grower today and will ask them why they left their entire orchard of Rainier cherries unpicked. (I'll pick more on the way home.) I hope it's not a labor issue.
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Gosh, it is almost as if electing Trump was a really dumb thing to do.
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@Barbara Monaco Cherry season just ended in our garden. Three(-ish) trees and several rounds of picking with the entire family, and yet we still managed to save only a small fraction from the birds and the rest of nature. The amount of labour require to even make use of the free stuff magically appearing on your land is easily underestimated. I don't want to imagine the impact perturbations of the labour market must have on people doing this commercially!
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@hirilonde My grandma had an orchard with both sweet and sour cherries. They are a challenge to pick.
There are no current automated picking methods that can equal a human.
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