date:Apr 01, 2013
The Flathead Lake Cherry Growers cooperative will talk to local growers next month about transitioning to new varieties to make Flathead cherries more competitive with Washington cherries.
In a nutshell, that means ripping out trees that produce the popular Lambert cherries and replacing them through an incentive program with new varieties.
This crossroad in the local industry coincides with the final year of cherry trials that have been gathering research on several new varieties of cherrie