A bountiful harvest seems like a good thing. But not for a farmer in Michigan who says a federal regulation forced him to let 40,000 perfectly good tart cherries go to waste .

Marc Santucci, who owns Santucci Farm in Traverse City, shared a picture on Facebook this week of tart cherries he dumped.

These cherries are beautiful! But, we have to dump 14 percent of our tart cherry crop on the ground to rot, Santucci wrote. Why? So we can allow the import of 200 million pounds of cherries from overseas! It just doesnt seem right.