Cherry Farmers

This week: A new radio station in Elberta aims to connect neighbors, an artist paints the changing cherry landscape, and the Antrim Co. clerk tries a write-in campaign.

This week, we meet the hype man for the Traverse City Pit Spitters, in his final season with the team. Also, cherry farmers try to adapt to a changing marketplace.

As growing tart cherries becomes less viable because of pressures like imports, development and climate change, some farmers have found ways to adapt.

National Cherry Festival is wrapping up this weekend but the cherry harvest is just beginning. A researcher and a grower reflect on this season and the years to come.

Cherry Bay Orchards in Suttons Bay received a $100,000 grant from the state to provide better housing for guest workers during harvest season.

Cherry farmers in northern Michigan have wrestled with erratic weather that damages crops for decades. This year, growers are projected to lose roughly two thirds of their harvest – a bad haul for the second year in a row. Could climate change mean the end of cherry farming Up North?

Cherry farmers in northern Michigan have wrestled with erratic weather that damages crops for decades. This year, growers are projected to lose roughly two thirds of their harvest – a bad haul for the second year in a row. Could climate change mean the end of cherry farming Up North?

This week on Points North, we examine the tart cherry tariff fallout and what it means for the industry. Plus, a Northport man made his childhoom dream a…

Michigan cherry farmers were in Washington, D.C. Tuesday to make their final case for U.S. imposed tariffs on Turkish cherry products. It is the last U.S.…

Winter is on it’s way, and everyone in northern Michigan is getting ready.Cherry farmers are protecting their crops from the cold, and they need to save…