Pacific Northwest pear growers are expecting to harvest a large, but not record winter pear crop this fall. The industry’s first official crop estimate, compiled in late May, is for 14.75 million boxes of fresh winter pears, of which 10.4 million boxes should be d’Anjou pears. That’s an 11 percent increase from last year, but the estimate is well below the record 15.8 million boxes harvested in 1995. The summer/fall pear crop (mainly Green and Red Bartlett) is estimated at 4.4 million boxes, up 6 percent from last year, and similar to two years ago. The estimate of the Red […]