Articles with the Tag: Flathead Lake Cherry Growers
Local graduates from UWYO LARAMIE, WYOMING — The University of Wyoming accorded Micah John McClure of Ronan a Bachelor of Science degree at the completion of the 2019 fall semester. For more information about the University of Wyoming, view the webpage at: www.uwyo.edu. Quilters to s...
Free workshop offered at LCCDC News from Lake County Community Development Corporation RONAN — On Thursday, April 4, from 9 a.m.-noon at the LCCDC office, 407 Main Street SW, a free workshop entitled, “USDA Rural Development Value Added Producer Grants,” will be offere...
YELLOW BAY — Local cherry growers heard about cherry powdery mildew on Saturday. Claudia Probst, a research associate at Washington State University- Prosser, spoke about the fungus before the Flathead Lake Cherry Growers, Inc. Probst said the mildew is unique to the Pacific Northwest, and mildew...
YELLOW BAY — The 81st annual cherry growers’ horticultural meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 8, at the Yellow Bay Community Clubhouse located at mile-marker 18 on Highway 35. Dr. Claudia Probst, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Scien...
Celebrating what local growers call the “best tasting cherries in the U.S.,” the Polson Main Street Flathead Cherry Festival continued its tradition of drawing visitors from around the nation and neighbors from around the corner. The two-day event branches throughout the downtown’s side ...
Flathead cherry trees are mostly pruned by now, allowing growers time to attend the Flathead Lake Cherry Growers 79th annual meeting held Saturday at the Yellow Bay Club House. Keynote speaker Norm Guitzwiler, a respected Washington cherry grower and crop management consultant, gave the audience of ...
POLSON — With unseasonably warm temperatures, tulips are poking inquisitive green fingers up to test the weather. Can the Flathead cherry trees be far behind? Cherries are an important agricultural crop up the east shore of Flathead Lake, so that’s a question worrying many growers as coming co...
As the cherry harvest ends, the shipping process and marketing runs smoothly largely to the program’s safety and legal requirements that are part of the harvest itself. Included in this process is the use of commercial sprays to protect the cherries from bugs, such as the Mediterranean Fruit Fly and...
Cherries were first introduced to Montana in 1866, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Grower’s interest blossomed quickly, and many began planting cherry trees around the Flathead Valley. By 1893 the trees had flourished in maturity, growing from eight to 12 feet tall. ...
Warm summer days ripened a variety of local cherries just in time for the Cherry Festival this year, allowing growers and vendors to sell a portion of their crop downtown last weekend. Bruce Johnson, president of Flathead Lake Cherry Growers, a Montana Agricultural Cooperative, said that the grow...
