 Montana News on the Northern News Network, I'm Brian Bennett. Each year, Flathead Lake growers produce between 2 million and 3 million pounds of cherries. But this year, the crop got almost completely wiped out by a hard freeze in January. The Flathead cherries are valuable because they usually come later in the season than the huge crops from Washington and other places. One longtime grower called it the worst she's seen in a quarter century.