impacted by the Cherry Marketing Institute and by CherrCo, a cooperative marketing organization that operates independent of the USDA program.

According to the USDA, the regulated tart cherry industry consists of about 600 tart cherry growers and 40 tart cherry handlers. Meanwhile, about three-quarters of America's tart cherry output comes from Michigan.

Burnette Foods, which sued the USDA over the CIAB, is a third-generation family business in Michigan with long history of selling cherries—beginning in the 1950s.

Burnette is a member of the 1 percent that doesn't market, say, frozen cherries.

Growers and companies that can't market cherries in any given year can simply save them for next year. Not Burnette. It's a processor of canned tart cherries, which "need to reach the consumer promptly."

Hence, when the CIAB tells Burnette it can'tThere's just a little over two months left before KCON 2019 New York kicks off at Madison Square Garden and Manhattan’s Javits Center, and on Thursday (April 18), the East Coast K-pop event announced the first two acts set to appear. Boy bands NU’EST and TOMORROW X TOGETHER will hit up the July event and perform at its headlining concert events.

Both NU’EST and TOMORROW X TOGETHER are five-member K-pop boy bands, but while the former is in the seventh year of its career, the latter is only in its first.

NU’EST, which is signed to Pledis Entertainment, debuted in 2012 and, after initial acclaim, lost traction in the industry for several years until appearances by several members of the group on the 2017 season of Korean television show Produce