2:24 Blossom time reveals extent of damage to cherry buds in the Okanagan. It was feared to be bad, but now the extent of damage inflicted by this winter’s extreme cold on cherry buds has become ...

Okanagan cherry growers, already reeling from an unseasonably cold winter, are now taking to the air to save ripening fruit from recent damaging rains. With just weeks before harvest, some ...

Cherry harvest is well underway across the Okanagan and some farmers had an early start, while others are midway through the season. However, it wasn’t an easy growing season for cherries ...

In addition, Brar estimates only about one-third of the Okanagan cherry crop survived this year. The crop loss for fruit farmers is just the latest blow in a string of extreme weather events in ...

Researchers at UBC Okanagan are working to learn more about how sweet cherry trees naturally protect their buds from freezing during cold winter months. This is critical for fruit trees because ...