Rain splits South Australia cherry crop

The cherry crop in South Australia's Adelaide Hills has been halved due to heavy rain over the weekend.

 

The crop was already smaller than usual, but this latest rain has split the cherries and wiped out some varieties altogether.

 

President of South Australian Cherry Growers, Grant Wotton, hopes there'll still be plenty of cherries to go around this Christmas.

"We definitely don't want any more rain," he says.

"It would have been handy to wait three or four weeks, but you've got to take what you get."