Strawberries and Caneberries

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Two varieties of strawberry chocolate - Meiji will be a big supplier of specialty foods to the 2020 Olympiad in Tokyo.
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Many More Ways to Candify Strawberry

January 13, 2020
By Mark P Bolda
It's almost become part of the season to post pictures of the many ways Japanese people use strawberry in food processing. And yes, it's all quite tasty. Believe me.
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2020 Strawberry workshop English #2
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2020 Annual UCCE Strawberry Production Research Meeting

January 8, 2020
By Mark P Bolda
This year's UCCE Annual Strawberry Production Research meeting will take place on February 5 and will be held at the Salinas Sports Complex (also known as the Rodeo Grounds) on Main Street.
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Fresh Matsutake mushrooms sauteéd golden brown.
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Living Large on the Monterey Bay

January 8, 2020
By Mark P Bolda
I don't intend for this blog to become sort of a Facebook type venue with pictures of me diving into pools full of cash, hoisting up big fish dockside or hobnobbing with rich and powerful people, but I will take exception with this intention to share a photo of the wonderful Matsutake mushrooms I wa...
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Figure 2: Late applications: Means followed by the same letter do not significantly differ (p= 0.05, LSD).
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Insecticide Management of Leafrollers in Blackberries

January 2, 2020
By Mark P Bolda
Happy New Year everyone. Let's see that we have a good season coming up here. Just rolling through old Powerpoint presentations looking for some information on herbicides for a local grower put me on to this presentation I made on leafroller control in 2008.
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Very strong year over year sales growth in organic produce.
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Groceries Finding Profitability Rising in Produce, Especially Organics

December 29, 2019
By Mark P Bolda
An article from the Wall Street Journal this past week underlines how much fresh produce sales are rising in the US and what value these present to the nation's groceries. Up 2 billion dollars from last year, produce sales for 2019 are looking to be a total of $62 billion.
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