organic strawberries with paul & sandy arnold
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Organic Strawberry Production
Paul & Sandy Arnold
November 2013
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Pleasant Valley Farm
Argyle, New York
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PAUL & SANDY
FAMILY FARM ENVISIONED
BOTH FROM SUBURBIA
DRIVE TO BE SELF-EMPLOYED
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ROBERT • Born in Nov 1992
• Age 20
• Now full-time local College-Computers
• Helps summers & Sat
Markets in Winter
• Great with
Equipment
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KIM • Born Dec 1995
• Now 17
• Senior in HS & College
• Homeschooled
• Helps run farm 20 to 60
hours per week+
• Markets every
Saturday
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• 5 Acres Mixed Diverse Vegetables
• ½ Acre Large Fruits
• ¼ Acre Small Fruits (Blueberries, Strawberries)
• Perennials & Herbs From Seed
• 3-4 Acres Cover Crops
• Sell at 3 local weekly farmers’ markets in summer & two Saturday winter markets
• Hay fields used by local Beefalo farmer
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FRUIT & VEGETABLE CROPS
• Diversity of
Vegetable Crops
• Large Fruit: Apples, Pears,
Cherries, Plums
• Small Fruit: Blueberries, Strawberries
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BENEFITS OF NO WEEDS • HEALTHIER CROPS
• FEWER DISEASES
• REDUCED INSECTS
• DECREASED FERTILIZER INPUTS
• INCREASED PICKING EFFICIENCY OF
CASH CROPS
• HIGHER CASH CROP YIELDS
• REDUCED IRRIGATION NEED
• INCREASED WORKER MORALE
• INCREASED PROFITS
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• Organic Matter
• 100% Weed Control
• Moisture Retention
• Prevents Soil Erosion
• Keep Roots Cooler
• Clean Crops
• Disease Suppression
• Workers and crates clean
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2006 JOHN DEERE 5325 67 HP
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FIRST STRAWBERRY SYSTEM: MATTED ROW
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Straw Mulch
• Purchased straw should be weed free and not have rye seed in it
• Straw is purchased and stored so we have it when needed
• Best to order early and secure the crop
• We request ours be cut prior to pollen
MULCHING CROPS
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Spread out after fertilizer amendments/prep
SPREAD STRAW OR HAY MULCH 4-6” THICK ON AREA
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MATTED ROW
• PLANT BARE ROOT STRAWBERRY PLANTS 12” APART APPROX MAY 1ST-15TH
• SUPPLEMENT EACH HOLE WITH COMPOST/NUTRIENTS IF NEEDED
• IRRIGATE
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• PLANTS RUNNER AND FILL OUT THE AREA
• NO WEEDS
Matted Row
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AUTUMN-ROTOTILL 2’ PATHS TO NARROW BEDS
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COVER WITH WEED-FREE STRAW IN NOVEMBER
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SPRING: RAKE STRAW INTO PATHS AS EARLY
AS POSSIBLE-WEED IF ANY
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ROW-COVER TO PROTECT BLOSSOMS 1-3 LAYERS
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SELL TO ALL THE WAITING CUSTOMERS FOR 4+ WEEKS—ALL VARIETIES
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ANNUAL BED SYSTEM
• History
• Through the season of incorporating strawberries
• Soil and Bed Preparation
• Plugs vs Tips
• Planting and Management
• Marketing and Profit
• Soil Management and Crop Rotation
• Summary
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HISTORY-CALIFORNIA SYSTEM CONFERENCE—TRY IT!!
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ANNUAL BED STRAWBERRY SYSTEM
Mulch either Matted Row or Annual Bed
CHANDLER
VARIETY
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A YEAR OF THE FIELD WITH ANNUAL BED SYSTEM
•Winter Rye or Winter Rye/Vetch In the spring
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CAN CHOP OFF OR LEAVE ON THE FIELD
• Farmall 400 • Gehl
Flailchopper • Chop Hay
Fields or Winter Rye in Spring
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PRIMARY TILLAGE
Chisel Plows
• Fast
• Better for soil
• 2 foot
• Every year
• Different
points
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Turn under rye 2 to 3 weeks before planting cash crop seeds
Rye has an allelopathic affect on seeds—prevents seeds from germinating
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Soil Tests • Take Annually to track
progress
• Pick a lab and stay with them — A&L Labs has great reference book
• Take sample same time every year
• Be accurate in sampling—Soil probe is a good tool to own
SOIL HEALTH
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Soil Tests • Amend as needed or get
custom fertilizers (2 opinions)
• Know how to calculate what is needed
• Know crop needs (Knott’s Handbook)
SOIL HEALTH
• Each Lab is individual • Logan-extra
micronutrients • Extension-Resource
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FIELD NOT NEEDED TILL SEPT 1ST
MAKE A DECISION ON THE FIELD: 1. PLANT A CASH CROP
2. PLANT A COVER CROP 3. CAN MAYBE DO BOTH
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TRANSPLANTING OR SEEDING-CASH CROPS IN AND OUT QUICKLY
SPRING PLANT
• Lettuce
• Spinach
• Arugula
• Beans
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OR…. COVER CROP SEED IN SPRING
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BUCKWHEAT
• Summer • Smothers weeds • Bees love it
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MAKE HILLS WITH 16” DISKS
FIRST SYSTEM FOR ANNUAL BED
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2 PASSES TO MAKE LARGER HILLS
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Plugs: 22 cents each + $150 shipping
PURCHASED PLUGS-3500=.13 ACRE
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• Mulch as always
• Lay out using marker stick
• 2 rows per hill • 12” between
plants in row • Plant early
Sept
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PLANT WITH COMPOST/SOYBEAN MEAL
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IRRIGATE AND LET THEM GROW!
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ROWCOVER ON WHEN 30’S OFF IN SPRING AT 10% BLOOM
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ADD FERTILITY IF NEEDED IN APRIL—OFTEN FOLIAR
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ROWCOVER FOR FROST PROTECTION
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BEAUTIFUL MULTIPLE CROWNING-OPEN SPACING
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HARVEST CLEAN WEED-FREE BERRIES
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VERY PRODUCTIVE—HARVEST ABOUT 4 WEEKS
TRIALED OTHER VARIETIES—CHANDLER BEST
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FEW DISEASES—TURN UNDER IN JULY
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Pests • Clipper • Tarnish Plant
Bug • Slugs
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WHAT WE DO NOW!!
RAISED BED SYSTEM
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PROS & CONS
TIPS
• Per plant less $
• Greenhouse time
• Preparation time
• Better Quality
• Yields?
PLUGS
• Per plant more $
• Come ready to plant
• Quality issues
• Yields?
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TIPS: $15 PER 1000 + $50 SHIPPING
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TIP PRODUCTION
Lareault Nursery in Canada www.lareault.com
• Our own tips • Purchased tips
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TIP PRODUCTION
Hook in
• Root Shield • Actinovate
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Organic Soil Mix:
4 buckets (5gal) compost
4 buckets (5 gal) horticultural grade peat moss
1 ½ buckets of perlite
4# organic fertilizer 5-3-4
*Test soil mix for pH and salts and nutrients
*Test greenhouse water for pH
*Work with professionals if issues
GREENHOUSE
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Winstrip Trays
• Winstrips: 72, 50
• Special orders only
• Very durable
• Great air circulation
• Direct Seed or Transplant into
• Contact us to get on the list for future trays if interested
GREENHOUSE
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MISTING SYSTEM
Good
Investment
Efficient Inexpensive
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HANDMADE POPPER
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PREPARE SOILS
• Fertilize as
necessary
• Long term
SOIL HEALTH
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BIO-TELO
• Corn based
• Saved weeding
• Reduced straw usage
• Warmed soil
• Breaks down
• Conserves water
• Comes 4’ or 5’
• .6 mil
• OMRI approval CLOSE!
New OMNI paper mulch?
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RAISED BED/PLASTIC LAYER
• Basic Brand
• Adjustments
• Drip vs overhead irrigation
• Limited HP needed
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NOW MULCHING
JUST BETWEEN PLASTIC!
Teagle Tomahawk
Round Bale
Chopper
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KNOW YOUR SOURCE---NO SEED—TEST!
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PROBLEMS--NO SEED—TEST!
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CUSTOM CHUTE
EDGE
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CUSTOM CHUTE
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• Fertilizer
• Humates
• Compost Tea
• Biologicals
MYCORRHIZAE • Mycorrhizae.com
• Beneficial Fungi
• Not for Brassicas
WATERWHEEL GREAT FOR DIRECT AMENDMENTS
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WATER WHEEL WITH NUTRIENTS IN TANK
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Drip Irrigation • Uses less water
• Good for permanent crops like blueberries, raspberries, asparagus
• Long season crops under black plastic
• Requires filter
• Produces garbage and continual expense
• Hard to keep up in an extreme drought
• Great for tunnels
Overhead Irrigation • Uses more water • Gets seeds started • Requires filter
sometimes • More efficient at getting
transplants watered in • More expensive initially • Good for cover crops
IRRIGATION
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IRRIGATION
Irrigation • Critical after
planting and all fall
• Again in spring • Berries need lots
of water • PLANTS NEED
THE WATER AROUND ROOTS TO ENABLE EXCHANGE OF NUTRIENTS
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ROW COVER FOR WINTER
TYPAR-DEER VOLES-MOLES
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ROW COVER FOR FROST PROTECTION 1-3
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NETTING FOR BIRDS
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TURN UNDER AFTER THE 4 WEEKS OF PRODUCTION—NO WEEDS!
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WE USE THAT HIGH ORGANIC MATTER SPOT FOR OUR FALL LETTUCES. STARTING 8/1
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ROTATION IS KEY
• Rotate families
• Break insect & disease
cycles
• 3-4 Year minimum
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MARKET PREP IS OUR BIGGEST EXPENSE
• To manage it, we use a system to evaluate the workers and our techniques to see how we can
improve profit
• We want to know the total time it takes the employees to harvest, wash, and pack an item
to be sold at the market.
• We use a simple TIMING RECORD SHEET to figure this out…done only a few times each year.
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$40 PER HOUR RULE +++
• We want each worker to be earning us
a minimum of $40 per hour while working on the harvest days!
• Example: Beans
An average picker can pick, wash & pack 25 pounds per hour.
At $3.50 per pound, the value is $87.50 per hour and falls within our limits for profitability.
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Data gathered only 2 or 3 times each year during harvest day to get data on all crops
ITEM START END QUANTITY JOB DESCRIPTION TOTAL TOTAL VALUE
INITIALS VALUE TIME PER HOUR
BASIL-BAG @$7 3:15 3:45 12 bags pick/bag SH & TJ $84 1 $84
BEANS @ $4/# 10:00 11:15 30# pick TJ
10:00 11:15 38# pick PA
11:15 11:30 68# total wash,crate HR $272 2.75 $99
LETTUCE @ $2.50 7:00 8:30 150 Heads Pick, wash,crate-PA $375 1.5 250
BLUEBERRY @ 3.50 9:10 AM 10:40 AM 30 (1/2pts) Picking & to cooler TJ $105 1.5 $70
RASPBERRY @3.50 9:30 11:00 19 (1/2 pts) Picking & to cooler PJ $66.50 1.5 $44
All times for picking, washing,crating, bunching, etc. would be totalled then divided into total value.
Example: Basil @$7=$84 worth readied in 1 hour (2 workers 1/2 hour each), therefore $84/hour
Example: Beans Total of 68# readied in 2.75 hours; Value @$4/pound=$272; 272/2.75=$99
Example: Blueberries @ $3.50 =$105 worth picked in 1 1/2 hours, therefore $70/hour
Example: Raspberries @ $3.50 =$66.50 worth picked in 1 1/2 hours, therefore $66.50/1.5=$44/hour
Example: Lettuce Total was 150 heads readied in 1.5 hours by Paul only=$375; $375/1.5hr=$250 per hour!!
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WHAT WE LEARN FROM THIS
• Who are the best workers for the task
• What crop is costing us the most to prepare
THEN:
• What can we change
• Who is chosen for future jobs
• What equipment is needed
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HARVEST RECORDS
Seeding Date: 6/8/10
Field: Main
A Emu spinach 400’
(PJ #17)
B-C Bolero carrot 800’
(EW carrot plate)
Field: North
A-B Merlin Beet 800’
C Isar Y Bean 200’
(EW beet plate)
D Jade G Bean 400’
(Jang bean plate)
RECORDS • Very Important • Simple notebook • We would not
know what techniques and crops make us the
most profit if we didn’t keep records of them
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$10,000 PER ACRE RULE
1998 Extrapolating out the gross value per acre:
Example: Strawberries
Income = 1789 pints @$3/pint = $5,367
Field Space = 6,900 square feet
Acres planted = 6,900/43,560 = .158 acre
Extrapolation:
$5,367/.158 = $33,968 per acre
*1998 Yield=13,350 pounds/acre
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$20,000 PER ACRE RULE
2013 Extrapolating out the gross value per acre:
Example: Strawberries
Income = 2573 pts @$4.50/pint = $11,000
Field Space = 7,000 square feet
Acres planted = 7,000/43,560 = .16 acre
Extrapolation:
$11,000/.16 = $69,000 per acre
*2013 Yield=16,250 pounds/acre
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FREEZING SECONDS FOR THE OTHER 48 WEEKS OF THE YEAR!!
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THANKS AND HAVE A GREAT 2014 SEASON!
Alaska, Glacier 2011 Hawaii 2006