Yeah the cherries are on the trees despite clear neglect.
@missinglinkster
13 күн бұрын
War on farmers/agriculture...
@theastuteangler
11 күн бұрын
all by design to ensure food insecurity.
@donaldcurtis9229
Күн бұрын
Yep that's exactly right
@NuncNuncNuncNunc
10 сағат бұрын
Ok, I'l bite. Who is waging this war? Is there an anti-cherry cabal trying to deny the public their sweet summer fruit?
@user-dn5bi4si5w
11 күн бұрын
I want to eat American crops and support American farmers. And I like cherries!
@JNoMooreNumbers
9 күн бұрын
@@user-dn5bi4si5w I have a couple in pots and once a little bigger transplant to the ground along with my other fruits and berries. Tastes better, pays itself off and can grow unique fruits that work on my zone.
@coldspring624
11 күн бұрын
Michigan grocery chains need to step up . These are our farmers and they need support
@theurbanthirdhomestead
6 күн бұрын
You can't change people's minds. My family would rather go to Walmart for eggs than support me in my venture.
@bondpit8750
13 күн бұрын
Globalization. How does it makes sense to import food from halfway around the world. That’s not exactly “green” is it? Agriculture remains one of Michigan’s largest businesses and we know what happened to manufacturing jobs. Do we want the same to happen with agriculture? Insanity.
@clintonreisig
12 күн бұрын
@@bondpit8750 Globalism is wrong in countless ways
@theastuteangler
11 күн бұрын
all by design to ensure food insecurity.
@galewinds7696
9 күн бұрын
It's already happened, Walmart sells apples brought in from China, because of this administration
@ivangranger8494
8 күн бұрын
👍🏼Spot on.
@theboringchannel2027
5 күн бұрын
most manufacturing jobs dissapeared due to automation, same with farming, if a machine can't plant it or pick it, its mostly not affordable to grow when labor is $12-18 hour.
@Larry-dt7kz
13 күн бұрын
You will eat bugs and be happy !
@clintonreisig
12 күн бұрын
... and own nothing
@clintonreisig
12 күн бұрын
and "own nothing"
@markbajek2541
10 күн бұрын
but they won't be cherry flavored
@annawell2517
9 күн бұрын
Zeeee bugs in cherry juice 🤪
@inharmonywithearth9982
9 күн бұрын
They already add Chinese human hair in our bread and named it L- Cysteine protein. Soy lent Green is already beginning.
@scottberry5266
14 күн бұрын
The problem is they import cherries from South America and Turkey cheaper than they can grow them here. Maybe tv8 should go up to oceana or mason county and interview some of the farmers and get the real scoop.
@chriszaiser
14 күн бұрын
Only if they employed actual journalists......
@scottberry5266
14 күн бұрын
@@chriszaiser : agreed.
@bondpit8750
13 күн бұрын
@@scottberry5266These folks aren’t investigative journalists, they’re ‘news readers’. Newspapers and local TV affiliates don’t have the budgets anymore with declining circulations and viewership. You can find more in depth and better independently produced stories on KZitem, which is where I saw this uploaded, lol. Even local affiliates are trying to grab YT eyeballs.
@scottberry5266
13 күн бұрын
@@bondpit8750 : oh yes I know. All the news does is spew lies and bull💩 now days. I’ve got friends in Oceania county that are cherry farmers and are going backwards. It costs .35 cents a pound to grow. The packer is only pay .16 a pound as of today. They say all the cheap cherries come from the country of turkey and are routed to South America, then up to the packers. Turkey can grow and process and ship cheaper than they can grow them here. I know it’s hard to believe but it’s true.
@dennisgrant538
11 күн бұрын
Time to block imports of food from that far away
@wattosdeal
12 күн бұрын
Soon the only local business will be tattoos and piercings, weed, and vape. In my town you can't throw a stone without hitting one of these places.
@user-mr3ct1dm9p
10 күн бұрын
@@wattosdeal or, casinos.
@Martin_Priesthood
8 күн бұрын
😂😂😂😂.
@JNoMooreNumbers
11 күн бұрын
Plant your own food.
@starwaterenergy
9 күн бұрын
@JNoMooreNumbers different zones has different crops in the u.s.
@JNoMooreNumbers
9 күн бұрын
@@starwaterenergy There are more heat tolerant cherry varieties for the south just not as many. I wish I could grow citrus. Tried indoors when the temp would drop and killed them. I do better with outdoor plantings. Some indoor hydroponics. Food not pot. Small things do pretty well and peppers.
@johnwilcox4078
9 күн бұрын
@@JNoMooreNumbers I have planted my own tart cherry trees, 7 of them! I've been growing them for years in Madison, Wi. Mostly for wine, a few pies too.
@inharmonywithearth9982
9 күн бұрын
Not only PLANT your own food but start trading what your area CAN grow with other farmers who CAN grow what you can't in your area. Forget leaving all that trade to the Monsanto a.k.a Bayer /Syngenta controlled USDA. Theyll only aid foreign competition
@Michael-um5pd
11 күн бұрын
Same thing happened in Hood River Oregon in 96, our government imported red delicious apples from china to the extent they were no longer profitable for the farmers in America to harvest so they destroyed all the Red delicious apple trees.
@generatorjohn4537
11 күн бұрын
Need to lobby Congress to place tariffs on imported cherries! Every effort must be made to keep our farmers competitive.
@lulajohns1883
8 күн бұрын
Absolutely and read project 2025 and what they have planned for farmers!! It isn't good
@johnb7046
13 күн бұрын
I despise the fact that grocery stores in regional areas aren't doing more to buy local. There doesn't need to be a middleman. I live in South Bend, IN and love cherries. Make my own jam too. Only a couple stores will purchase local cherries from Michigan, most are imported in bulk (frozen or picked early for transport blechh). Whenever I get the chance, I will purchase or pick my own berries, grapes, apples, etc etc from local areas including Michigan. Fresh sweet corn is an every year thing too, I'll blanch and freeze a bunch. There needs to be a better system for regional growers and grocery stores. Farmer's markets aren't frequented enough by the younger generations unfortunately for some reason.. I guess they got used to the inferior food.
@yougonnaeatthat9889
12 күн бұрын
I have a commercial kitchen and laws regulate who I can buy from. Unless the farm is inspected by the state I cannot legally buy from 99% of those selling at farmers markets. I can't jeopardize losing my license buying from approved sources. Some do but they are taking a gamble and could easily get shut down.
@carolschall4361
10 күн бұрын
😢
@inharmonywithearth9982
9 күн бұрын
Most of all the remaining farmers markets are too expensive to buy a membership to sell there and a huge portion are selling produce that was thrown out by grocery stores a family member works at or selling Chinese fake honey pretending to be local beekeepers. Also the farmers markets I've tried to sell out say you must buy an annual membership and my perishable crops are only harvested at a couple times per summer.We definitely need farmers markets but the government is processing new restrictions on selling and no more raw milk and its illegal to buy any seeds from outside the United States since about four years ago. Good non Bayer/Monsanto / Syngenta non GMO seeds are getting scarce and expensive since the ban. And we can no longer get any antibiotics for our bees or livestock unless we pay for a veterinarian farm visit so small poultry farmers can't do anything about flock sickness. Plus they threaten killing all our birds with their bird flu psyops just like China did all their small farmers to get Tyson in and small independent poultry farmers out. They burned all their poultry with military using flame throwers after digging small holes on the private farms. Enough said. Sorry to comment so long. Con Agra frozen foods owns about every brand in the freezer section at the grocery store. Everything they buy is from foreign countries especially China and Mexico. They even buy Alaska Salmon from CHINA!
@edwardroche2480
7 күн бұрын
There was a small cherry tree in our front yard when I was a boy, Every Spring it was covered in beautiful white fragrant blossoms, and every summer it was covered with beautiful little red cherries. My mother and I would sit on the front porch looking at this cherry tree. So did the squirrels and birds. My mother would make cherry pie cherry jelly, cobbler and other Cherry Delights. It was an unforgettable part of my childhood .
@ronaldbilar7503
9 күн бұрын
Simple open your farm to you pick and under cut the super market no labor charge.
@dirtworshiper2800
11 күн бұрын
The U.S. is so bass ackwards.
@karlmadsen3179
11 күн бұрын
Well, one thing I know is if a farmer destroys his crops, that farmer is guaranteed of making no profit.
@markbajek2541
10 күн бұрын
unless he sells the farm to either a housing developer or a solar or wind farm. "remember a farmer's last crop is housing" and "a solar farm is still a farm" at least that's what the ads say.
@916Concrete
Күн бұрын
@@karlmadsen3179 unless you have crop insurance my pops said back in the day like 90s that’s what everybody did and made more money than farming
@Toni-nz4wv
12 күн бұрын
TELL THE TRUTH !!!! LIES
@jeff022889
11 күн бұрын
Keep voting democrat and watch our country deteriorate.
@missinglinkster
10 күн бұрын
@@jeff022889 facts!
@timmick6911
7 күн бұрын
It's Capitalism
@congerthomas1812
11 күн бұрын
North America Free Trade Agreement, Thanks Clinton's and the Democrats!!
@suzypos4571
9 күн бұрын
Exactly 💯
@NuncNuncNuncNunc
10 сағат бұрын
You might want to check to see how many R votes are behind NAFTA. Dole. Gramm. Grassley. Hatch. Kassebaum. Lott. Lugar. McCain. McConnell. Packwood. You know, just the GOP leadership at the time and well into the future.
@ruby319able
9 күн бұрын
Corporate and banks are taking over farming
@inharmonywithearth9982
9 күн бұрын
You are right. Billionaires including Bill Gates are buying all the cheap farm land too.
@timmick6911
7 күн бұрын
Blame Reagan. Remember Farm Aid?
@richardbice980
12 күн бұрын
Elections matter vote smarter
@deborahwhit118
11 күн бұрын
RIGHT 😂🤯
@NuncNuncNuncNunc
10 сағат бұрын
Educate yourself about the issues and where candidates truly stand, not the letter behind the name.
@richardbice980
3 сағат бұрын
@@NuncNuncNuncNunc that is exactly what you need to do
@PongoZydeco
8 күн бұрын
Why? You can distill cherries, make booze. Why destroy? This is stupid. Where can I get these cherries free?
@tammyh.8454
11 күн бұрын
being paid to NOT farm, very sad
@harchan448
12 күн бұрын
F J B!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@bobhughes9628
22 сағат бұрын
@@harchan448 FDT FMAGATS
@lulajohns1883
8 күн бұрын
Look at project 2025 and farmers!!
@LB-ty6ks
13 күн бұрын
Sad to see this happening.
@MichiganDaisy-1111
9 күн бұрын
Cherry trees NEED a good amount of snow and cold weather to thrive and grow during the spring and summer. Michigans climate IS changing and without our nice winters happening anymore the trees aren't doing so well. Plus I have read very many articles with Farmers stating that they don't want to farm in these areas anymore because the tourists are extremely rude and they're just taking over😢
@georgedeligiannis1071
22 сағат бұрын
@@MichiganDaisy-1111 10 times hotter in Greece have ample cherry harvests.
@brushcrawler8612
12 күн бұрын
Build Back Better 🔥
@mattstarr8203
12 күн бұрын
it make sense to rely on foreign country genius country
@furryfurnace9601
12 күн бұрын
Economics! All inputs are 10-15 percent more and prices for the product is lower! All of agriculture needs help if people want to keep eating !
@katiesioux7757
8 күн бұрын
All by design
@gauthier.victoria
11 күн бұрын
😢 I couldn't even find tart cherries all I could find were the sweet cherries... And everyone knows that the tart cherries are better for cherry pie filling 🥧 and for Cherry jam 😋...
@inharmonywithearth9982
9 күн бұрын
Yes same thing everywhere. You sure can't make any pie without tart cherries.
@jamesrath7509
8 күн бұрын
@@gauthier.victoria usually get those at the farmers market , buy a flat and freeze em, good all year
@UPdan
11 күн бұрын
I'm eating mine so I'm not buying from anyone. Honeyberry is delicious also. Then black raspberry time, wild blueberries in the U.P. Walnuts. APPLES. PEARS. SORRY.
@marklee2508
11 күн бұрын
BTW, Texans will eat all your cherries, so make our market exclusive, they don't recognize 'competition' down here noway.
@philliplewis3754
11 күн бұрын
Cherries are $4.99/lb and Rainier cherries $5.99-$6.99/lb bring your crop to Los Angeles!
@jilbertb
14 күн бұрын
That's just crazy. They can donate their produce to Second Harvest (fka: Gleaners) food bank and people who can't afford to buy food, can use them. Plus, they get a tax write-off. There's one right near there in Cadillac too. Or is this really just media hype bcuz ONE farmer said "screw this"?!
@nrbrtmuller
12 күн бұрын
If they "donate" the food they still have to pay someone to pick that food without getting a dime. You can't sustain a business on tax write-offs. What it taes is for people to stop buying imported food and to support local growers!
@jeffekkel5870
11 күн бұрын
@@jilbertb Would those who receive the free food be willing to harvest the food to reduce the farmers cost?
@jeffdymarczyk4413
11 күн бұрын
It’s a shame,signing contracts 😈 in the details.Can’t sell to anyone else???
@michaelkurtz1967
11 күн бұрын
Ocean Spray faced challenges and formed one of the most successful Co-ops in the world.
@NWPaul72
14 күн бұрын
So, why? Some vague nonsense about labor cists and economic conditions, vut no anslysis at all. This isn't news, it's crumbs for loval trivia nights.
@johnb7046
13 күн бұрын
Ding ding ding! Sports and weather take up 1/2 of the news program. What do you expect? Actual news on the nightly news!?
@andypanda4756
22 сағат бұрын
Cherries are super expensive, even in cherry growing states. The orchards must get none of the profits. In Washington, the distributors are taking a lot of the profits.
@josephpetrie2867
9 күн бұрын
Why, great cherries, from Ohio. Where is your governor?
@Pha-q
Күн бұрын
Working for china
@randysummerhays4168
11 күн бұрын
It's just like the beef industry taking all the prophet away from Rangers
@patrickprafke4894
Күн бұрын
Hmmmmm. Maybe crops should be in a stock exchange were people can dictate prices.
@Gogalen789
Күн бұрын
Cherry production in CA is booming however that deals with bing cherries and other sweet varieties. Could be a demand issue as well.
@markfeland2285
Күн бұрын
We've seen the same thing in B.C.'s Okanagan, can't get the people to pick them Been that way for 20+ years
@AhJodie
Күн бұрын
Cherries didn't do well this year either. Too much rain.
@lesliemoore1656
2 күн бұрын
Last time I was in Michigan for the cherry festival was 2017 and the business was going strong, now just 7 years later its in trouble because of rising costs and too many imports. I love cherries and when I buy them its seasonal and usually from WA or OR never another country. Buy local and buy only what is grown in the US. All produce must have country of origin labels.
@TreDogOfficial
22 сағат бұрын
Surely there must be another use for the cherries. Perhaps they could dehydrate them in the sun and sell them in the winter. At the very least they will make good compost.
@MrElwoodCaudill
7 күн бұрын
You would think Joe would do something about this but he’s busy trying to break stuff in Ukraine.
@theastuteangler
11 күн бұрын
maybe Michigan doesnt have the climate and ecology to grow cherries. whoulda thunk it.
@Pha-q
Күн бұрын
MI produces 75% of the US tart cherry crop.
@theastuteangler
Күн бұрын
@@Pha-q my point still stands.
@Pha-q
Күн бұрын
@@theastuteangler nah
@speedingAtI94
19 сағат бұрын
Could have exported them if not for the trade policies
@eds5977
3 күн бұрын
My ex family grew up there always had problems one year I remember crops were great gov had them destroyed to keep pricing up
@user-jk2hb5qq8r
18 сағат бұрын
Why destroy it??? How is that profitable?? All I can see that it would do is raise prices on what is sold, 😮😢😮
@A3Kr0n
12 күн бұрын
Someone must be making money or I couldn't buy cherry pies.
@terryl.cooper
12 күн бұрын
Why destroy them? Could they not export them?
@inharmonywithearth9982
9 күн бұрын
Try shipping something lately. 3 packages of 7.2 pounds each packed in 15 boxes cost 1,078 dollars UPS from California to Oklahoma. There were no cheaper options. Nobody will buy cherries at that price.
@jamesfergus594
5 күн бұрын
Forcing farmers out!
@BravoPreparedness
Күн бұрын
If you want to try to do something helpful for your future and the future of those who feed us, make sure that you buy Michigan products and even get to know the farmers and find out what the price per pound needs to be for them to be profitable. Pay that stinking price per pound that they need and don’t go for the absolute cheapest, but go for quality and keep your farmers going.
@ruby319able
9 күн бұрын
People start following news from different states and your will see patterns.
@tompilling4154
7 күн бұрын
Happened during the collapse of the Roman Empire when inflation "coin cutting" took hold
@eugenefirebird8938
13 күн бұрын
Do what the oil companies and house builders do. Overcharge and price gouge while colluding to keep supplies low. Yay America!
@nrbrtmuller
12 күн бұрын
Typical uniformed opinions. Try making a living growing food!
@inharmonywithearth9982
9 күн бұрын
They are perishable and must be sold while perfectly ripe. Holding them in reserve is not an option and the shipping away is extremely expensive.
@nicholasb8799
6 күн бұрын
We will all be eating local foods soon....1996 the US Airforce published a paper called "Owning the Weather in 2025" - it's not climate change, it's side effects of global weather warfare.....
@bullfrogpondshop3179
6 күн бұрын
Guy graduated from Kammy Harris Word Salad Academy
@JohnMacFergus-oz5cp
11 күн бұрын
Dang, so sorry guys.
@krobbins8395
2 күн бұрын
Very sad news I love tart cherries they have natural melatonin as a sleep and pain aid. Says a lot how we are not helping our farmers stay in business and that we do not have a effective quest worker program in place.
@phillipdavidhaskett7513
11 күн бұрын
Cherries are THE most expensive fruit in a supermarket. How are growers not raking cash? Almond growers seem to make enough, and avocado prices have stabilized. Are these guys just being greedy?
@anderander5662
11 күн бұрын
We'll just buy them from China...😮
@arizonaandrew
Сағат бұрын
Get rid of the government and you’ll be selling all the cherries you can grow
@lukebogacik2793
13 күн бұрын
Horrible
@JJordan1012
13 күн бұрын
I get being angry, but why destroy a perfectly good crop? You lose all your money that way. His anger got the best of him
@witchfindergeneral13
13 күн бұрын
I’m fairly confident they don’t do it out of anger. They can’t afford to harvest at the price they’ll get.
@JJordan1012
12 күн бұрын
@witchfindergeneral13 aww, that's so terrible. This world is falling apart so fast.
@drakiana8717
14 күн бұрын
They are probably getting paid to do this. Because there’s always farmers markets.
@jilbertb
14 күн бұрын
And food shelves!!
@johnb7046
13 күн бұрын
Transportation and labor costs still arise for the little you can sell at farmers markets without produce going bad. There are only a certain amount of farmers markets around and locals willing to buy product. I think canning would be a better solution to problems like this. But then now we are talking more inspections, modern food safe facilities and packaging/transport costs. It's a catch 22
@jamesrath7509
8 күн бұрын
Lots of frozen berries and fruit from Michigan in the stores around here
@arizonaarmadillo5829
8 күн бұрын
I wish people interviewed would stop interjecting with "you know." If we already KNOW, then why are you wasting our time?
@RickBeall
4 күн бұрын
Zero research and thought went into that presentation. A couple circular arguments and they were done.
@kirkalexander6704
11 күн бұрын
So why destroy the crops just because they the growers cant make enough money.. I say sell or giveaway the crops they already have but dont be selfish an destroy it
@missinglinkster
13 күн бұрын
Labor costs are too high...
@inharmonywithearth9982
9 күн бұрын
Yes even migrants get minimum wage and have to have approved rental port a potties or you get sued plus you now have to buy insurance for them. They wont allow you to hire local high schoolers for a few boxes of cherries anymore.
@mikedubovs1574
18 сағат бұрын
Make moonshine
@barneyrubble1431
12 күн бұрын
if they get out of that business into something more profitable than the more profitable will become not profitable too,, supply and demand early bird gets the best worms when the demand is high,, almost everything is overstocked people just can't get any fatter ? LOL
@zovalentine7305
6 күн бұрын
😥
@ferko6
Күн бұрын
Bidenomics! Working as planned!
@deborahwhit118
11 күн бұрын
NOTHING NEW 🤯
@wonderfulmee
7 күн бұрын
VONS MARKET SELLING CHERRY THAT'S SOO BLACK !! CHERRY ARE SUPPOSE TOO BE RED NOT A DARK BLACK LOOKING DONT BUY
@Anonymous4672-fi8vv
Сағат бұрын
Blame Biden nomics
@roywarriner8441
Күн бұрын
Calling it quits or destroying their crops aren't the same thing you silly propagandist. Try journalism.
@DemocratsRPedos
12 күн бұрын
Grow weed.
@bigjesus9954
13 күн бұрын
If these companies brought the food to urban communities then maybe it will sell more. These people deprive our communities of good food and think god is gonna continue to bless them😂😂😂
@nrbrtmuller
12 күн бұрын
Looks like you never ran a company and had to pay people for the work they do. Think about what it would cost additionally to bring food to urban areas and sell the small amounts they can sell. Stop buying imported food from halfway around the globe. Buy local and support your local economy.
@elizabethcarrington5819
12 күн бұрын
If people want produce the immigrants are the only one’s willing to do the work. This will only get worse under a trump whitehouse. Vote for Biden to keep yourself and your family safe.
@toddholldorf9494
12 күн бұрын
I completely disagree with you. And I’ll leave it at that.
@JNoMooreNumbers
11 күн бұрын
Biden regime caused all these problems so you will eat fake food and bugs. Bon appetite. Make you weak so you can't fight back when you realize what's really going on.
@paul340mopar
11 күн бұрын
@@toddholldorf9494 She's a Woman...And I’ll leave it at that.
@jimschuman9926
11 күн бұрын
Elizabeth: 🙄🤡😂😭
@JNoMooreNumbers
11 күн бұрын
@@elizabethcarrington5819 The above ad bot is paid for by the WEF.😆That means the fake name you used.
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