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Cherry Fact Sheet

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Pacific Northwest Sweet Cherries

Cherry Fact Sheet

2022 Sweet Cherry Production: 13,277,332 boxes (20 lb. cartons)
(Includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Utah)

2022 Production Percentages:

  • The Pacific Northwest produced 73% of the fresh U.S. sweet cherry crop by volume.
  • The Pacific Northwest exported 75% of the U.S. fresh consumption exports of sweet cherries by volume.

2021 Production Acreage1:

  • Pacific Northwest: 50,500 acres
  • United States: 84,500 acres

2021 Top Sweet Cherry Producing States1:

1. Washington
2. California
3. Oregon

State Facts:

  • Cherry harvest season generally runs from early June through August.
  • Washington is the top U.S. producer of sweet cherries, apples, pears, blueberries, and hops.
  • Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and California are the only states that export sweet cherries.
  • The Washington and Oregon sweet cherry industries employ 20,000 people.
Fresh Production Volume 
(20 lb. cartons)
Percent of Pacific Northwest
Crop Exported
2022 13,277,332 23%
2021 20,342,214 29.2%
2020 19,828,114 28.2%
2019 23,261,628 34.5%
2018 25,352,062 32.9%
2017 26,432,194 35.2%
2016 20,972,973 33.1%
2015 19,307,244 30.7%
2014 23,201,595 32.4%
2013 14,254,920 31.6%
Dollar Value of Pacific Northwest Crop
Year              Total                 Export
2022 $899,046,936 $204,762,923
2021 $866,903,387 $281,251,801
2020 $1,134,819,318 $358,881,023
2019 $994,628,398 $362,726,029
2018 $989,960,000 $358,391,427
2017 $1,005,060,711 $398,771,700
2016 $905,972,719 $311,124,010
2015 $826,724,492 $284,572,184
2014 $880,277,144 $299,015,970
2013 $670,914,353 $211,904,418
2022 Top Ten Cherry Export Markets
Country Volume 
(20 lb. cartons)
Canada 1,317,216
China 452,668
Taiwan 427,454
Korea 272,013
Mexico 140,698
Vietnam 111,823
Hong Kong 72,255
Japan 70,612
Thailand 43,592
Australia 42,092
Other 98,605
Total Exports 3,049,028

1 Non-Citrus Fruits and Nuts 2021 Summary. USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Published May 2022. In 2018 NASS ceased its collection of data from Idaho. Starting in 2018 the NHC includes Idaho in some of its fact sheets based on private sector estimates rather than NASS survey data.

All other data provided by the Foreign Market Statistics Report 2022. Washington State Fruit Commission / Northwest Cherry Growers. Published December 2022.

2/15/23

 

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