Strawberries and Caneberries

Introduction: The difficulty of controlling Macrophomina, the causal agent in charcoal rot in strawberry, in California has brought about a renewed interest in non-conventional methods for its management.

A couple of months ago, I had a meaningful conversation with my colleague Gerald Holmes at the CalPoly Strawberry Institute concerning extension of our research results.

To be held at our office at 1430 Freedom Blvd, Suite E in Watsonville on October 24. Sign in starts at 730 am and the meeting goes to noon. Get here early, looks to be a pretty heavily subscribed event. Agenda below.

The following is an article from a California Agriculture magazine published in the year 2000, and in using two case studies from California, is quite instructive on what it takes to successfully introduce mechanization and automation into a cropping system.

No, I don't think so and see for yourself with the photo series below. I have quite a few more of these pictures, but I think you'll get the point with the two series posted.