Pear trade begins with variety, seasonal type, maturity and intended use—not a generic fruit label. Summer and fall pears, winter pears, fruit for processing, and canned, dried or other prepared products use different standards and channels. Comparable offers require variety, summer/fall or winter type, fresh or processing use, grade and inspection basis, size or count, maturity, firmness and ripening stage, defects, pack, origin, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window and information vintage.
The figures below are USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates for the 2025 United States pear crop, published in May 2026. They separate utilized production into fresh-market and processing use. They are dated domestic crop measures—not global trade totals, a current physical offer or a live delivered price; annual average crop values are not presented as current lot prices.
Bartlett and other summer or fall pears can follow different maturity, storage and marketing conventions from winter types such as Anjou or Bosc. Fresh fruit, processing pears, canned styles and dried products also use different standards and units. Atlas keeps the named variety, seasonal type, product form and intended use explicit before comparing lots or evidence.
USDA AMS maintains separate standards for summer and fall pears, winter pears and pears for processing. Those standards address single-variety identity, maturity, hand picking, form, cleanliness, scald, internal breakdown, decay, hard end, black end, bruising, russeting, broken skins and other defects. A physical record preserves the exact standard, variety, maturity and firmness, size or count, color or ripening stage, defects, pack, storage treatment, inspection point, cold-chain history and arrival condition.
USDA NASS estimated 756,300 short tons of utilized U.S. pear production in 2025, including 618,480 tons for the fresh market and 137,820 tons for processing, from 41,500 bearing acres. These dated measures describe domestic crop scale and use. A delivered price still requires the exact variety, seasonal type, product form, grade, maturity, size, pack, origin, destination, Incoterm, delivery window and current physical evidence.
No. Variety and seasonal type affect maturity, storage, ripening, grade treatment and commercial use. Fresh-market and processing fruit also follow different specifications.
It is USDA NASS's estimate of utilized United States pear production for the 2025 crop year. It is a dated domestic crop measure, not global production and not a current physical price.
Summer and fall pears, winter pears and processing pears have different maturity, handling and use requirements. The applicable standard must be named before grade evidence is compared.
Variety, summer/fall or winter type, fresh or processed form, grade and inspection basis, size or count, maturity, firmness and ripening stage, defects and condition, storage treatment, packaging and net weight, cold-chain history, origin, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window and evidence date.
Figures retain their source, period and review date. Corroboration is not promoted to primary evidence.