Seneca Foods plans to close its Sunnyside, Washington, fruit processing facility after the 2019 pear harvest, leaving the Northwest with only two pear canners. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower) Northwest pear growers may respond to Seneca Foods closing its Sunnyside, Washington, processing plant by pulling out orchards as the pear industry continues to struggle with oversupply and a flood of cheap canned pear imports. “We’ve been worried we were going to lose another cannery,” said Doug Field, a member of the Washington State Fruit Commission and the owner of Excel Fruit Brokerage Co., in Yakima, Washington, which works with all the […]