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13. 300 bins at 350 lbs/ea. 2.5 TONS of cherries!

Fri Jun 20, 2025, 11:11 AM

Jun 20

To me - that’s a lot of cherries!

I bought cherries yesterday at about $5 a pound, so that farmer’s crop was worth, retail, about $525,000.

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