Local News | Cool, wet spring delays Washington strawberry crop | Seattle Times Newspaper

"This is definitely a year for the record books," said Mike Boxx, who operates Boxx Berry Farms on Northwest Drive. He said they would normally be harvesting strawberries these days, but instead the berries are still green. "We believe we'll start getting a few ripe strawberries between June 15 and June 20."

Already feeling the impacts of a cold, damp spring are dairy and seed potatoes farmers. Many Whatcom dairy farmers haven't been able to get in a first cut of grass or silage, typically done in April. That may force farmers to pay for feed, which can be triple the cost of cutting grass.

[Breaking: Climate change allegedly causes good cherry harvest in Italy]  - ANSA English - ANSA.it

(ANSA) - Rome, May 17 - For the first time in living memory, cherries are maturing at the same time up and down the Italian peninsula, a phenomenon some observers see as a further consequence of climate change.
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According to the gastronomic-environmental group Slow Food, the reason for this is that for the past two months or so temperatures highs in Italy have been consistently, over 50% of the time, greater in northern Italy than in the south.

The good news is that the quality of this year's harvest is very good throughout the country and prices have already plunged below last year's highs.