Small Fruit Update Week 25, 2026
It’s kind of awkward to be quickly surrounded by folks at a field day after someone hands me a bruised strawberry asking what the problem might be. I’m automatically opening and finding larvae like it’s a first grade show and tell experience gone wrong.
Small Fruit Update Week 25, 2025
I thought the heatwave a couple weeks ago might slow it down some and maybe it did, but not enough unfortunately. So alas, it’s time to talk about Spotted Wing Drosophila.
Small Fruit Update Week 25, 2024
How about this stall in fruit ripening due to the weather? Last week I worked from the family farm while caring for a family member…
Small Fruit Update Week 25, 2023
A relatively new disease called Orange Rust has been spreading in Oregon blackberries. It is important that all blackberry growers scout for it and act if found.
Small Fruit Update Week 25, 2022
Hello Junuary… Nothing like starting strawberry harvest with dirty, slug infested, and now split berries. Someone turn the rain off, please!