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  • July 2026 Issue
  • Story by Ross Courtney
  • Photographs by TJ Mullinax
  • Pear pangs continue for canning crop

    Northwest canning pear growers renew efforts at collective promotion, ask California colleagues for help.

    —In the wake of Del Monte’s bankruptcy, the Northwest canned pear industry is giving itself one more year of collective promotions, hoping for the remaining processor to boost volume and for California growers to pitch in a little.

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