Cherries are rotting in Oregon because nobody is around to pick them. There’s a lot of cherry-picking around the data as to why there’s nobody picking cherries in Oregon, but the fact is that nobody is picking cherries in Oregon and they’re rotting where they are. From CNN:

They should have been picked a couple of weeks ago to tempt shoppers at markets and stores, or processed to garnish Shirley Temple mocktails, shiny and fat, promising bursts of sweetness. The lost harvest has hit almost a quarter of Chandler’s 125 acres of cherry trees—not because of bad weather, disease, or blight, just because there was no one to pick the fruit. “What you’re going to see is a bunch of fat, happy raccoons this winter,” Chandler said ruefully, standing amid his still burdened trees. “Unfortunately,

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