⚠️ CRITICAL 2026 CROP & MARKET UPDATE

This year’s unseasonably warm winter and spring created unprecedented agricultural challenges, including an early bloom followed by a severe hard freeze. This freeze heavily damaged or entirely eliminated fruit crops throughout Utah and multiple major tart cherry-producing states, resulting in a severe nationwide shortage.

To put the scale of this disaster into perspective, our grower’s immediate neighbor, who normally processes 25 million pounds of tart cherries, is completely shutting down their processing plant this year because there is no fruit.

• Our Supply Status: Because of our 40-year relationship with our grower, Scofield Fruits has been placed on their exclusive priority list. While they are fighting through a slim 20% crop in their area, they have expressed confidence in being able to fill our orders.

• Our Pricing Promise: Because of the national shortage, the raw cost of fruit from the orchard has increased by a steep 63% to 70% depending on the bucket size. We know this is a heavy jump. Because we deeply value your loyalty, we are restructuring our pricing layout this year to absorb a significant amount of this market pressure ourselves to ease the pain for our customers. We want to ensure your family traditions, bakes, and brews can keep going through a tough agricultural year, and we are keeping these buckets as affordable as humanly possible.

📌 PRICING DISCLAIMER & CO-OP NOTICE Because the harvest is in disaster mode, the grower’s regional CO-OP is meeting on June 18th, and we expect a finalized, firm price lock around June 19th or 20th. To open orders on time, our posted online prices reflect the best current market estimates available from the orchard based on meetings to date. We are hopeful—and our grower feels optimistic—that there will be no further price increases from the co-op.

Any final price updates will be sent directly via email. Please note that your online order confirmation will not be updated to reflect these changes; the final balance will be modified and adjusted at the register during your in-person pickup.