California Pear Update – June 21, 2024
The 2024 California pear harvest is just a few weeks away. The official California Pear Advisory Board estimate for Bartletts is 97,500 tons and 1,375,000 packed boxes. This represents a 20% decrease of tons and a 10% decrease in pack when compared to last year’s harvest. The Bosc crop is expected to be a good crop but also smaller than last year’s bumper crop. Fruit size and quality should be excellent in all districts. Scully Packing is projecting to have a fresh pack very similar to last year’s quantity.
Tentative Start Dates:
Bartletts: July 17th
Organic Bartletts: July 29th
Golden Bosc: July 29th
Seckel: September 1st
Mountain Bartletts: August 5th
Red Pears: July 29th
Org. Golden Bosc: August 1st
French Butter: September 1st
Scully Packing Company accounts for approximately 40% of California’s Bartlett pack. In addition to our orchards, we pack fruit for 22 of California’s finest pear growers.
We offer a broad selection of pack styles including 40# wraps, 36# Tight-fill, 27# Euros and RPCs, 20# ½ cartons, 12/2# pouch bags, 9/3# pouch bags, 6/4# pouch bags, and 4# and 6# consumer trays.
Scully operates two shipping locations, our main facility in Lake County, and our convenient central location in Exeter (southeast of Fresno, in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley’s agricultural center) for easy consolidation with other summer and fall commodities. We pride ourselves on providing our customers with the highest quality service and most efficient loading experience in the industry.
For more information on the upcoming California Pear season and Scully Packing please don’t hesitate to call. All sales inquiries will be handled out of our Finley office.
Rod Rosales, Phil Scully, Suzie Alvarez