California pears will be available through most of October, and total shipments may equal about 2.2 million bartlett pears and 500,000 cartons of bosc pears.
The California apple crop isn't big, but growers promote their crop with gusto during their short marketing window, from early August into early September.
Unusually warm weather in July and well into August in California’s San Joaquin Valley was affecting some fall fruit, but growers still anticipated flavorful, high-quality product during the autumn.
Pomegranate growers are cautiously optimistic that they will have a more normal season this year, said Tom Tjerandsen, manager of the Sonoma, Calif.-based Pomegranate Council.
California fall fruits could start on the early side and with high sugar content after the state experienced some of the same 100-degree-plus summer weather felt elsewhere in the U.S.
California's kiwifruit crop appears likely to surpass last year's, when hail and wind damage took a bite out of volumes in the northern production areas of the Sacramento Valley.
