For three years in a row, Laura Kurella has won the People’s Choice award in the Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice Council’s ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Mich. — The farmer was trying to cross the road, but the busy highway wouldn’t let him. “You see what I’m talking about? We never had to deal with this before,” he said, facing an ...

When fourth-generation farmer John Pulcipher took on the family’s cherry farm business full-time 16 years ago, he says the profits were fairly good for the crop, particularly for growers like him in ...

July is the perfect month for cherry picking, as farmers prep their produce and families handpick the biggest, ripest cherries they can find in U-Pick farms across the state. But there is one tiny ...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Federal agriculture officials authorized disaster protections for Michigan’s cherry growers who lost most of their crop this year. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer requested a disaster ...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – A new bill with bipartisan support would make the cherry Michigan’s official state fruit. The bill, announced Thursday, Sept. 12, would place the cherry alongside such symbols as ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2023. TRAVERSE CITY - People from all around the world visit the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City the first week of July. While the ...

Glen Arbor-based retailer Cherry Republic has built a successful business around a fruit that company President Bob Sutherland calls a “ruby red morsel of joy.” For Cherry Republic, the tart cherry is ...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU)— Cherry season in Northern Michigan is more than halfway through, but farmers are grappling with lower yields due to adverse weather conditions. Local farms ...

CENTRAL LAKE, MICHIGAN (Reuters) -The frost came in late April, sliding across the hills before dawn. Juliette King McAvoy stepped into the orchard, hoping the cold had spared the cherry buds. But ...