Steven Murray, Sr., left, and his son Steven, Jr., picked the first commercial cherries in California, and the nation, on April 15. Most of their cherries are exported to Japan. In tree fruit, timing can mean the difference between exceptional prices and average prices, and it’s usually the early variety and districts that reap the ­benefits. There’s early, and then there’s early. Nobody is earlier than Murray Family Farms in Arvin, California, which claims to be the first in the United States each year to pick sweet cherries for commercial markets. This year, their cherry harvest got into full swing […]