June is traditionally strawberry month in Kentucky with berry lovers swarming over patches to stock their freezers. But strawberry growers are blaming a wet, cloudy spring for what at least one describes as a disaster. Some people do pick in the rain a little bit. But then the quality goes down also. The berries get a little more flat in flavor and people, uh, they don't have as much allure to the public as they would otherwise.
Yields are way, way down.
I think the weather, the rain, has increased diseases, also reduced the quality of the berries.