Pear production is down and some processors did not buy pears this year. Small fruit Blueberries suffered in some areas from frost. The dry growing conditions seem to have a big impact even in irrigated fields. Yields and berry size were good for early varieties but late pickings of Jersey failed to size causing many growers to call an early halt to the season. Non irrigated blueberries suffered from dry soil conditions and looked poor going into fall.
Irrigated blueberries look good and are setting fruit buds for next spring.
Grapes were the disaster of 2001. Cold winter temperatures damages wine grapes and cold wet weather preceding and during bloom reduced fruit set to about a third of a normal crop. Many growers had applied more fungicide sprays before and during bloom to reduce phomopsis pressure. This and the dry growing season resulted in very little disease pressure. Growers were able to generally ignore foliage-feeding insects but grape berry moth was still a problem up to harvest.