Canada Cherry Update

May 22nd, 2025

World Fresh Exports Quality Control Inspectors have spent the last five days in our Canadian cherry orchards, evaluating the size, set, and quality for the upcoming season. We anticipate starting the harvest on June 10th and continuing to pack cherries into early September.

Canada is expecting a record crop of 5 million 20-pound cartons this summer. The excellent chilling hours during winter and a cool spring have been highly beneficial, along with winter pruning and thinning during bloom time. World Fresh will be packing this substantial crop at our three facilities in Oliver, Summerland, and Kelowna. This setup ensures the shortest transit times from orchard to packinghouse, maintaining the cold chain and increasing shelf-life for our customers.

World Fresh packs and ships daily, both locally and internationally, to North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. We are registered for exports to Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Europe, and California (where pre-season registration is required). We offer a variety of packaging options, including pouch bags, clamshells, and bulk packaging, with shipments made by truck, airplane, and sea.

Please browse our website for more cherry information and varieties, and contact us to discuss a program

(Photos above of some our our actual cherry packaging and varieties available in season)