Bartlett pear production declines

Canned pear consumption and West Coast Bartlett pear production have both declined over the past few years. Last season, the West Coast produced 430,000 tons of Bartlett pears, down from as many as 550,000 tons during the 1990s, Jay Grandy, manager of the Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association, reports. The reduction in tonnage has been mainly in California, which used to be the country’s top Bartlett-producing region. The Pacific Northwest now produces more Bartletts than California. The Northwest’s 2007 Bartlett pear crop is estimated at 241,000 tons, about the same as last year. Of that, 140,000 tons are likely to be […]