Ag series: Cherries
Washington's farmers have made the state the nation's top cherry producer, but their work isn't easy. In the fields, the tempermental fruit can easily be destroyed by adverse weather; in the global markets, threats of trade wars loom large.
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Jorge Bacquez, 29, of Chiapas, Mexico, raises an orchard ladder as the moon hangs above him while harvesting cherries on early Thursday morning, August 2, 2018, at the Gutzwiler family orchard in Wenatchee, Wash.
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Jorge Bacquez, 29, holds the first of five, 330-pound bins of cherries he picked on Thursday, August 2, 2018, at Jake the Gutzwiler family orchard in Wenatchee, Wash.
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Jorge Bacquez, 29, of Chiapas, Mexico, balances on an orchard ladder on Thursday, August 2, 2018, at the Gutzwiler family orchard in Wenatchee, Wash.
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Jorge Bacquez, 29, of Chiapas, Mexico, stands on an orchard ladder while harvesting cherries on Thursday, August 2, 2018, at the Gutzwiler family orchard in Wenatchee, Wash.
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Paul Turbyfill, a farmer at Walter's Fruit Ranch, walks among some of their cherry trees on Wednesday, July 25, 2018, at Green Bluff in Spokane, Wash.
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Jorge Bacquez, 29, of Chiapas, Mexico, harvests cherries on Thursday, August 2, 2018, at the Gutzwiler family orchard in Wenatchee, Wash.
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Sweetheart cherries, a larger and later maturing relation of Bing cherries, are seen on Thursday, August 2, 2018, at the Gutzwiler family orchard in Wenatchee, Wash.
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Michelle Gutzwiler, 41, supervises the final stages of the cherry harvest in the orchard she co-owns with her husband Jake on Thursday, August 2, 2018, in Wenatchee, Wash.
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Bing cherries are seen at Walter's Fruit Ranch, on Wednesday, July 25, 2018, at Green Bluff in Spokane, Wash.
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Gabriella Baltodano ties a slice of cherry pie at Walter's Fruit Ranch on Wednesday, July 25, 2018, at Green Bluff in Spokane, Wash.
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Gabriella Baltodano ties a slice of cherry pie at Walter's Fruit Ranch on Wednesday, July 25, 2018, at Green Bluff in Spokane, Wash.
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Cherry jellies are seen at Walter's Fruit Ranch on Wednesday, July 25, 2018, at Green Bluff in Spokane, Wash.
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