Comment on cherry pickers
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 weeks agoMe either, but assuming it’s a real screenshot, the date is 2018. I didn’t do much digging, but 2018 saw an increase in cherry crops according to this source upnorthlive.com/…/usda-2018-cherry-crop-productio….
An overall increase of 60% is pretty big! If this specific farm had an especially bad year in 2017, a 340% increase isn’t out of the question.
fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s from an Onion-esq science blog.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 weeks ago
Ah, I see. thesciencepost.com/local-cherry-orchard-only-hire…