Cherry harvest is typically an all-hands-on-deck event for family farms.But in July, Kent Karstetter was managing the harvest logistics for 150 acres of cherries-and running everywhere - because his two sons, Mitchell and Brady, were working around the clock to harvest their hay in Quincy, Washington."We do about 1,000 acres of hay, with four cuttings; 1,500 acres of cover crops in the spring; and have about 1,000 acres of corn ground," said Mitchell during a follow-up interview in September — from the cab of his tractor, where he was spreading compost produced by the dairies he supplies with straw and feed. "There's times when it's hard. Now we are bailing hay and short on people because we are picking apples."
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