Reduced supplies of U.S. brining cherries and restricted supplies of imported brining cherries are making it hard for the U.S. cherry-brining industry to meet demand. But strangely, there has not been a significant price increase paid to growers that reflects the short supplies. Historically, it’s taken around 50,000 tons of cherries to satisfy and sustain the brined cherry industry, said Josh Reynolds of Gray and Company, a privately owned Portland, Oregon, company that’s been making maraschino cherries and glacé fruit since 1908. Reynolds, the company’s vice president and general manager, shared trends and challenges of the brined cherry industry with […]