Employee, Anna Bongle, serving a customer
Cherry Facts
• Wisconsin grows approximately 5% of the nation’s cherry crop.
• The total U.S. tart cherry crop is 200-400 million pounds of cherries!
• Tart, Montmorency cherries is the variety grown primarily in the U.S.
• Door County is a great area to raise cherries because the lake tempers the spring frosts.
• Tart cherries are mostly sold frozen, dried or in juice.
• Cherry pie filling is the #1 canned pie filling seller in supermarkets.
• The U.S. leads the world in sweet cherry production - the total production is about 370 million pounds.
• Most sweet cherries are sold fresh during the summer months.
• The most famous sweet cherry variety is the Bing Cherry.
• Seaquist Orchards has the largest acreage of cherries in Wisconsin and processes about 2/3 of the state’s cherries.
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