Article: Utah cherry crop expected to be down about 11 percent from 2003.

Byline: Steven Oberbeck

Jul. 3--Utah's cherry crop this year will be down from 2003 but the state's fruit farmers and a Utah Agricultural Statistics Service statistician disagree over how much fruit is hanging on trees waiting for harvest.

The statistics service forecasts that Utah farmers will produce about 23 million pounds of tart cherries this year, down about 11 percent from the 26 million pounds picked from orchards in 2003, but still enough to place Utah as the second-largest producing state.

When Payson-area fruit farmer Robert McMullin walks among his trees and looks at the tart cherries hanging overhead, though, he is far less ...

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