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Crop-Specific Production
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Featured Resources
- Raspberry and Blackberry Production Guide – Comprehensive resource for both novice and experienced growers as well as crop advisors and educators.
- 2022 Organic Production and IPM Guide for Raspberries & Blackberries
- Berry Soil and Nutrient Management – A Guide for Educators and Growers – Guide and webinars to help prepare soil preplant, correct problems in existing plantings, perform foliar testing and improve soil health.
- Tunnel Production — Protected culture information for strawberries and brambles formerly hosted at www.tunnelberries.org.
- High Tunnel Raspberries and Blackberries – Extend the season, increase yields and improve fruit quality with this in-depth production guide filled with color photos, production budgets and more. (pdf file)
- Greenhouse Raspberry Production Guide – produce high quality, premium raspberries for the off-season market. (pdf file)
- Low and High Tunnels for Protected Culture for Berries – Bramble information starts at 12:10
- Berry Webinar Archive – View and listen to online berry web seminars, including a bramble mini-series on production, IPM topics.
General Production
- Raspberry and Blackberry Production Guide
- Raspberries and Related Fruit
- Bramble Production Systems
- Starting the Berry Production Season
- TunnelBerries – USDA SCRI
- High Tunnel Raspberries and Blackberries (2012 update)
- Raspberry Production in High Tunnels
- High Tunnels for Late Fall Raspberries
- High Tunnel Raspberries and Blackberries
- Greenhouse Raspberries
- Guidelines for Greenhouse Raspberry Production – UMASS Extension and MDFA
- Berried Treasures: Off-Season Production of Strawberries and Raspberries
- Black Raspberry Performance and Potential
- Red Raspberry Production – Penn State University
Pollination
- Pollinator Network @ Cornell
- Working Together to Protect Bees
- Pollination Services Contract
- Northeast Pollinator Partnership Project
- Optimizing Pollination of Fruit Crops with Bees – Michigan State
- Pollinator Protection Plant New York State (2016) and Pollinator Protection Plan Results Update (2018)
- DEC Pollinator Page
- Active Ingredients Eligible for Minimum Risk Pesticide Use
- NYSIPM Pollinator Page
- Wild Pollinators of Eastern Apple Orchards and how to Conserve Them
- Managing Alternative Pollinators: A Handbook for Beekeepers, Growers, and Conservationists
Organic Production
- 2016 Organic Production and IPM Guide for Raspberries & Blackberries
- Key Features of Organic Berry Crop Production
- Organic Culture of Bramble Fruits – ATTRA
Site Selection and Preparation
- Site and Soil Requirements for Berry Crops
- Cover Crops for Raspberry Plantings
- USDA Hardiness Zone Map for New York State
- More Hardiness Zone Maps
Cultivar Selection
- Cornell Nursery Guide for Blackberries and Raspberries
- Performance of New Berry Varieties at the NYSAES in Geneva, NY (2015 Fruit Quarterly v. 23-4)
- Raspberry Variety Review
- Blackberry Variety Review
- Black Raspberry Performance and Potential
Soil, Nutrient, and Water Management
- Berry Soil and Nutrient Management – A Guide for Educators and Growers
- Lessons Learned Through the NE SARE Berry Soil and Nutrient Management Project: Soil and Plant Tissue Nutrient Survey (2014 Fruit Quarterly v. 22-3)
- Lessons Learned Through the NE SARE Berry Soil and Nutrient Management Project Part II: Berry Soil and Nutrient Management and the Cornell Soil Health Test (2014 Fruit Quarterly v. 22-4)
- Agro-One Services: [Soil Testing] ; [Plant Tissue Analysis]
- Understand Your Agro-One Soil Test Results
- Leaf and Soil Tests on Local Berry Farms: Lessons from Summer 2010
- Cornell Soil Health Website
- Caneberries Nutrient Management – Oregon State University
Plant Growth and Development
Pruning and Trellising
Other
- Mid-Atlantic Berry Guide For Commercial Growers
- NC State University Blackberry and Raspberry Growers Information Portal
- Southern Region Small Fruit Consortium
Information for Home Fruit Plantings
- Cornell Guide to Growing Fruit at Home
- Cornell Garden-based Learning – Fruit
- Chapter 11: Small fruit cultural pest management in Pest Management Around the Home Cultural Methods
- Fruit Production for the Home Gardener- A Comprehensive Guide – Penn State University
Production Archives