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Site Selection | Soil and Nutrient Management | Water Management | Cultivar Selection | Pollination | Organic Production | Other | Home Growing
Crop-Specific Production
Blueberry | Bramble | Minor Fruit | Strawberry
Featured Resources
- TunnelBerries – A grower information website featuring research and extension on all types of protected culture for strawberries and brambles, sponsored by USDA SCRI. Sign up for their blog.
- Protected Culture for Strawberries Using Low Tunnels – Protect berries from weather and extend your harvest season into summer and late fall. View webinar: Low and High Tunnels for Protected Culture for Berries (includes raspberries starting at 12:10)
- 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.
- Berry production guides for highbush blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries-blackberries. From Plant and Life Sciences Publishing (PALS formerly NRAES), now available online.
- Nursery Guide for Berry and Small Fruit Crops – This two-part nursery guide for berry growers cross references scores of cultivars with the nurseries that sell them.
- Berry Webinar Archive – View and listen to online berry web seminars on topics including weed control, varieties, insects, and nutrient needs.
Site Selection
- Site and Soil Requirements for Berry Crops
- USDA Hardiness Zone Map for New York State — (More hardiness zone maps)
Soil and Nutrient Management
- Agro-One Services: [Soil Analysis]
- Lessons Learned Through the NE SARE Berry Soil and Nutrient Management Project: Soil and Plant Tissue Nutrient Survey (2014 Fruit Quarterly v. 22-3)
- Understand Your Agro-One Soil Test Results
- Leaf and Soil Tests on Local Berry Farms: Lessons from Summer 2010
- Comprehensive Assessment of Soil Health – The Cornell Framework Manual (3rd edition 2016)
- Cornell Soil Health Website
Water Management
- Northeast Regional Climate Center
- US Drought Monitor – Northeast
- Drought Resistant Soil – ATTRA
- Estimating Soil Moisture by Feel and Appearance – USDA
- Soil Moisture Monitoring: Low Cost Tools and Methods – ATTRA
- Drip Irrigation – An Introduction – Oregon State University
- Irrigation for Fruit and Vegetable Production – Pennsylvania State University
- Measuring Soil Moisture for Irrigation Water Management – South Dakota State University
- Measuring and Conserving Irrigation Water – ATTRA
- Maintaining Irrigation Pumps, Motors, and Engines – ATTRA
- Energy Saving Tips for Irrigators – ATTRA
Cultivar Selection
- Cornell Nursery Guide for Berry and Small Fruit Crops
- Performance of New Berry Varieties at the NYSAES in Geneva, NY (2015 Fruit Quarterly v. 23-4)
- Blueberry Variety Review
- Strawberry Variety Review
- Raspberry Variety Review
- Currant and Gooseberry Variety Review
- Developing New Fruit Varieties (Impact Cornell)
Pollination
- Pollinator Network @ Cornell
- Working Together to Protect Bees
- Pollination Services Contract
- 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
- Northeast Pollinator Partnership Project
- Optimizing Pollination of Fruit Crops with Bees – Michigan State
- Managing Alternative Pollinators: A Handbook for Beekeepers, Growers, and Conservationists
Organic Production
- 2022 Organic Production and IPM Guide for Blueberries
- 2022 Organic Production and IPM Guide for Strawberries
- 2022 Organic Production and IPM Guide for Raspberries & Blackberries
- Key Features of Organic Berry Crop Production
- The Organic Way: Use of Compost and Manure in Small Fruit Production) – Penn State
Other
- The New Face of New York Berry Growers: Insights from the 2007 NYS Berry Grower Survey
- The Small Fruits of New York: Historical Images
- Berries as Symbols and in Folklore
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