It's vital to know the exact time you should harvest pears because pears are ready to be picked when they're fully formed, not when they're ripe on the tree. Leave them until they're ripe and you may ...

As part of Country Living’s new Plot to Plate series, we’ll hear from Raymond Blanc and the team at Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, on how to grow, prune and harvest the season’s very best produce and ...

Pears and apples are keystone crops in the Columbia Gorge. The Hood River Valley is a prime location for orchards and fruit. (iStock.com) YAKIMA — Proving resistant to early-summer heat, the regional ...

Bartlett pears hang from a tree branch at Oregon State University’s Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center on July 18. U.S. fresh pear exports are expected to drop to their lowest level since ...

The pear harvest occurred right on schedule this past week at our place. We hadn’t really planned to harvest the day we did, but when we awoke to 6 inches of soggy new snow, we figured it was time.

Pear Bureau Northwest estimates this season’s pear harvest for Oregon and Washington will be down 31% in volume from the five-year average. The crop is anticipated to reach 10.6 million standard box ...

CASHMERE — The Washington State Tree Fruit Association estimates around 10.6 million 44-pound boxes of pears will be harvested in the Northwest region — a 31 percent decrease from the past five-year ...

As new varieties of apples have increased their presence in Washington orchards and on the nation’s grocery store shelves, pear growers are slowly but surely expanding their offerings. With most of ...

HOOD RIVER — With pear harvest in full swing across the Hood River Valley, activity was buzzing on a mid-September morning inside the noisy packing house at Diamond Fruit Growers, one of the country’s ...

An August heat spell brought the Rogue Valley’s pear harvest on track for a normal schedule. Rogue Valley growers began harvesting red pears in mid-August and began picking Comice blocks just before ...