Orange received more than 108mm of rainfall during December and January that has left orchardists devastated for the second year in a row.

Cherry grower Guy Gaeta said he lost 90 per cent of his cherry crop over the four week season.

“It was devastating ... some people didn’t event pick a cherry,” he said.

Mr Gaeta’s orchard usually packs around 30,000 cases of cherries annually, but this season resulted in a dismal crop of just 1000 cases.

“It’s crossed my mind to get out of them, but what do you do, you just got to keep persisting,” he said of crops failing for the second time in as many years.

“It’s great when you get them but I’m not a gambler that’s why we do apples as well,” he said of his decision to split his growing capabilities 50/50 with apples.

Mr Gaeta said the cherry crop should have brought in around $300,000 for the orchard, however he is now he is suffering a $30,000 loss.

Orchardist Dino Cunial said instead of picking 20,000 boxes of cherries, the orchard only managed to fill 200 boxes due to the rained-out cherry crop.

Despite suffering a huge cherry crop lost during the 2010/11 season, Mr Cunial said you can’t let the loss get the better of you.

“When you’re in this sort of game you can’t let it get you down because that’s how it is,” he said.

“It was a real shocker,” Terry Rossi from the NSW Cherry Grower Committee said of the 2011/12 cherry season.

Despite a number of varieties being grown across Orange, he said many orchardist suffered a huge loss.

“It rained almost everyday, no matter what you try you can’t stop the trees from soaking up the water,” Mr Rossi said.

He said cherry growers are already pruning their trees in preparation for the next season and he hopes cherry pickers will not be turned off Orange after two bad seasons in a row.

“There were a lot of people turned away from work, I’m hoping that we do have a good one so the pickers don’t bypass Orange [in the future].”