Small Fruit News
The Southern Region Small Fruit Consortium posts articles and sends the SMALL FRUIT NEWS to subscribers four times annually.
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The North American Raspberry & Blackberry Association (NARBA) is teaming up with the North American Strawberry Growers Association (NASGA) to host their joint 2025 annual meetings and conference on February 3-6, 2025 in Kona, Hawaii.
Posted in: Fall 2024 -
Neopestalotiopsis crown, leaf and fruit disease is an important emerging disease of strawberry that can affect every part of the plant (crown, roots, leaves, fruit). The symptoms were first widely known in the US on strawberry in 2018, following an outbreak in Florida in annual plasticulture fields.
Posted in: Fall 2024 -
Meet Congliang Zhou, assistant professor in the School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences at Louisiana State University (LSU), specializing in precision agriculture, artificial intelligence, remote sensing, and robotics. He joined the LSU Agricultural Center on July 1, 2024.
Posted in: Fall 2024 -
Biostimulants consist of beneficial microorganisms or compounds that can improve crop yields by strengthening plants’ immune systems and enhancing their tolerance to both biotic and abiotic stresses.
Posted in: Fall 2024 -
Registration is now open for the 2025 Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference (SE Regional), the South’s premier specialty crop educational conference and trade show for growers, packers, and shippers. The conference will be held January 9-11 in Savannah, Ga.
Posted in: Fall 2024 -
In this article, we evaluate how southern berry production has evolved over the past 15 years. Overall, there has been growth in the berry industry in terms of number of operations, and average berry farm size across the region.
Posted in: Summer 2024 -
Grape producers, like many other specialty fruit crop growers, face a range of challenging environmental conditions during the growing and dormant seasons. It’s important to understand how variability impacts grapevine biology and fruit chemical composition.
Posted in: Summer 2024 -
During a 2022-2023 disease outbreak in South Carolina plasticulture fields, some decline was attributed to Phytophthora crown rot but Gnomonia leaf blotch commonly took out mature leaflets and contributed to weak plants.
Posted in: Summer 2024 -
Meet Lorena Lopez, Assistant Extension Professor at North Carolina State University, and learn about her work in advancing integrated pest management practices for berry growers.
Posted in: Summer 2024 -
There is a high demand for fresh grapes on the domestic market. Advances in breeding have set the stage for the expansion of the muscadine grape industry and to a wider production area and the introduction of new, high-quality cultivars to the consumer.
Posted in: Summer 2024