Strawberries and Caneberries

When we talk of berry production in the Monterey Bay area, we also talk of using a lot of plastic - from the bed covers for strawberries, to the tunnels for caneberries to the weedmats in the anchor rows of those tunnels. Not to even mention the inputs for clamshells.

Colleague Surendra Dara has moved his massive extension event from outdoors in the field to online this year.

I got called out a few weeks by the farm manager and the PCA of a raspberry field suffering from a darkish mold growing on the fruit.

I've had some calls the last few days concerning really large concentrations of bugs showing up in strawberries.

Had the fruit pictured below show up in one of my pick plots, and figured I'd put this one out to the readers on some opinions on what this could be. The brown lesions on the fruit are hard, but not sunken like one would see with anthracnose.