Pear Crop Estimates

Pear Crop Estimates

Pear Crop Estimates. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

The 2014 pear crop is still some ways off but recently representatives of the Northwest pear industry met to project the size of the 2014 fresh pear harvest and review program strategies and tactics for the coming season. Lacy Gray has more.

GRAY: Northwest pear growers from Wenatchee and Yakima, Washington and Mid-Columbia and Medford in Oregon got together last week to compare notes on how the 2014 pear crop was shaping up. The current estimate is for approximately 18.7 million standard 44-lb box equivalents or 411,400 tons of pears for the fresh market.  This estimate is 6% smaller than the five-year average, and 13% smaller than last year’s record crop. The top three varieties in terms of production remain the same as in previous years; Green Anjou pears are anticipated to make up 53% of the total 2014 crop, and Bartlett and Bosc pears are expected to yield 23% and 14% respectively.

Thanks Lacy. Kevin Moffitt, president and CEO of Pear Bureau Northwest said quote: “While last year yielded the largest crop on record, this year’s crop is looking to be more in line with the five-year average.” Harvest isn’t expected to begin until late July and may be a few days earlier than in the last few years for some of the early varieties like Starkrimson and Bartlett’s.

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.

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