Strawberries and Caneberries

You are invited to participate in the UCD Strawberry Breeding Field Day on June 1, 2022 in Prunedale, CA. Discussed and for view will be research projects and the program's most advanced day neutral selections. Find attached agenda and map for details.

Good morning. A bracing article out of the Business Section in today's paper on rising grower interest in the use of microbes as an alternative to delivering plant nutrients which as we all know are rising a lot in price (sorry, paywall): https://www.wsj.

I've spent the last few weeks poring over the archived Production Pink Sheets on the Strawberry Commission website. These are extremely valuable tranches of knowledge written in clear language by all the greats of whom we always hear.

In person meetings are definitely becoming a thing!! Research partner California Berry Cultivars (CBC) is holding a field day this coming May 3 and asked me to help in getting the word out.

Nice article this morning in the Wall Street Journal about the Oishii strawberry, grown indoors in New Jersey and making some waves in the retail markets out East.