(Olympia, WA) -- Pear growers in Washington state and Oregon are reporting their worst harvest in nearly four decades. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports this year's pear harvest in the Pacific Northwest yielded its smallest crop since 1985. This year's crop of ten-point-six-million standard 44-pound box equivalents is down 31-percent from the five-year average. Last year's harvest yielded 15-point-two-million boxes.