Pear Report

Pear Report. I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report. The 2010 pear season is getting underway and according to Kevin Moffitt, with Pear Bureau NW things are looking pretty good. MOFFITT: We just had our annual meetings first part of June and included in those meetings were the first fresh pear crop estimates and based on those estimates it looks like we're going to probably have a fresh pear crop that's about 8% over last year's record crop but about 1% above the 5 year average so pretty much in the average range. Moffitt says that one variety in particular saw a fairly large decrease. MOFFITT: We're looking at about 18 million 500 thousand standard boxes of fresh pears this year. That's down 20 million 100 thousand from last year and pretty much the biggest decrease comes from the green Anjou pear which is down about 10% from last years large crop. He says there should be about 10 million boxes of Anjou down about 1 million boxes. MOFFITT: And then of course the second largest produced variety on the fresh side is the green Bartlett and we'll have about 4 million boxes this year which is down about 3% from the 4.1 last year. So I would say the other big decreases were going to be down 7% on Bosc pears That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.