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The association says the nearest cannery, Pacific Coast Producers, plans to rely instead on one-year cash contracts to maximize production at its existing facilities.—Nina Burns, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2026 Sutter County, the epicenter Last year Del Monte received about 74,000 tons of cling peaches from Central Valley growers, processed at the company’s cannery in Modesto.—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 9 Mar. 2026 Once a center of fur trading and canneries, Astoria is located at the mouth of the Columbia River, close to the Pacific Ocean.—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2026 Ryan and Mahoney’s team took over a vacant former cannery — at least one wall of which remains on the grounds of the Solar Turbines plant — and completed the build within Lindbergh’s 60-day timeline.—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cannery