Canned pear inventory is low

Pacific Northwest canned pear processors will start the 2006 season with a low inventory and a below-average volume of Bartlett pears to process. The volume of pears going to the processed market has been on a downward trend for five years, Jay Grandy, manager of the Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association, reported during annual pear industry meetings this summer. The Northwest’s 2005 processed pear crop of 139,000 tons was the smallest since 1996 when pear production was affected by a freeze. Toward the end of the 2005-2006 season, inventory was so short that some processors were buying canned pears from other […]