Australia wants Pacific Northwest cherries, but not the leaves and spurs, thank you. Dr. Mike Willett, vice president for scientific affairs at the Northwest Horticultural Council, visited Australia in February to find out how to reduce the volume of Northwest cherries rejected on the basis of debris in the container. Debris means leaves and anything else that’s not part of the fruit or stem. “We were trying to come up with a definition of what they really didn’t want, and learn about the extent of the problem last year,” Willett said. Willett said some packages have contained a lot of […]