date:Feb 07, 2014
rcent at 432,000. Brazil, once No. 3, has slipped to No. 5 behind Colombia. Brazil, down 55 percent, is at 166,000 boxes and Colombia is at 271,000. Exports totalled 4.9 million on Jan. 31 compared with 4.7 million a year earlier.
Pear prices and sales were boosted last year by a smaller national apple crop, but pear prices have remained good this season, above prices of two years ago when the previous crop record was set, said Dan Kelly, assistant manager of the Washington Growers Clearing Hou