Regina cherries are harvested at Don Nusom’s orchard at Gervais, Oregon. Ever since Oregon Agricultural College horticulture professor Ronald Wiegand developed a better brining process for mara–schino cherries in 1925, the light-skinned Royal Ann has dominated production in the Willamette Valley. But that’s been changing the last –several years, and for two reasons. For one, growing Royal Anns in the valley has always been a throw of the dice because rains can disrupt pollination in the spring and then come back in early summer to split maturing fruit before it can be harvested. The other impediment to growing “briners” in […]