Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the...
description
Transcript of Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the...
![Page 1: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Organic Open-field and High Tunnel
Strawberry Cropping Systems
for Long-term Viability of the
Southeastern Industry
Carlene Chase, Xin Zhao, Oscar Liburd,
Zhifeng Gao, Mickie Swisher, & Sanjun Gu
![Page 2: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
University of Florida
Carlene ChaseWeed Scientist
Xin ZhaoHorticulturist
Oscar LiburdEntomologist
Mickie Swisher, DirectorCenter for Sustainable and
Organic Food Systems
Zhifeng GaoEconomist
![Page 3: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Collaborators
Sanjun GuHorticulture Specialist
Marty MeshExecutive Director
SambhavApplied Research Manager
![Page 4: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
The long-term goal
Expansion of organic strawberry production in
the SE US beginning with Florida & N. Carolina
Focus: open-field and high tunnel systems
Environmentally & economically sustainable
Resilient to weeds, pests, and diseases
![Page 5: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Assess the use of off-season cover crops forweed and nematode suppression
Sunn hemp
Hairy indigo
Jointvetch
Short-flower
rattlebox
PI - Carlene Chase
![Page 6: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Cover Crop Performance
Sunn hemp & hairy indigo
have greater potential for
biomass production and
weed suppression.
Stakeholders requested
more research with these
2 species.
Stakeholders recommend
cover crops that also give
a marketable product.
Weed biomass suppression
cc c
a
b
c c
bc
b
a
![Page 7: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Conference Posters and Presentations
Cover crops for organic strawberry cropping
systems. Weed Science Society of America
2014
Going organic to diversify and sustain the
strawberry industry. Florida State Horticultural
Society (FSHS) 2014
Engaging stakeholders to refine research
objectives for grant proposals. American
Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) 2014
![Page 8: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Assess the performance of commercial strawberry
cultivars & advanced selections in organic systems
Citra
Plant City
High tunnel
(Citra)
Co-PI: Xin Zhao
![Page 9: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
‘Albion’, ‘Camarosa’, ‘Strawberry Festival’, ‘Florida Radiance’,
‘Winterstar’, ‘Treasure’, ‘Proprietary #1’, & ‘Proprietary # 2’
2 advanced selections and
‘Florida Sensation’ in high tunnel
8 commercial strawberry cultivars evaluated in high
tunnel and open-field systems for plant growth, fruit
yield and quality
![Page 10: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Almost all the cultivars showed
higher total marketable yields in the
high tunnel than in the open field.
‘Albion’ in open field
(Feb. 17, 2014, Citra)
‘Albion’ in high tunnel
(Feb. 17, 2014 Citra)
The magnitude of the impact of high tunnel on fruit
yield differed among cultivars.
Fruit quality attribute differences between cultivars
also varied with the production system.
![Page 11: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Spider mites
Powdery
Mildew
Production problems differed in high tunnel
and open-field systemsHigh tunnel Open-field
Fruit rot
Fruit cracking
![Page 12: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Yield performance of strawberry cultivars under
organic production in high tunnel and open field
(FSHS 2014 Annual Conference)
High tunnel production of organic strawberry in
northern Florida: opportunities and challenges
(ASHS 2014 Annual Conference)
Presentations
![Page 13: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Biological control of twospotted spider mites
Neoseiulus californicus
Twospotted
spider mite
Co-PI: Oscar Liburd
![Page 14: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Sampling for twospotted spider mites
![Page 15: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Bigeyed bug, Geocoris spp. Minute pirate bug, Orius spp.
Beneficial insects recorded in strawberries
Hemiptera
AnthocoridaeLygaeidae
Thripidae
Sixspotted thrips
Scolothrips sexmaculatus
![Page 16: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Monitoring for spotted wing drosophila (SWD)
![Page 17: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Training growers to identify SWD
![Page 18: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Strawberry injury resulting from
Neopamera bilobata (Say)
![Page 19: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Presentation
Abundance of insect pests and mites
on strawberry varieties grown in high
tunnel and open field.
FSHS 2014 Conference
![Page 20: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Assess consumer preferences for tangible and
intangible qualities of strawberries and consumer
willingness to pay for these traits
Obj. A
• Assess consumer preference and WTP for tangible attributes
Activity
• Sensory test with strawberry cultivars
Status
• Statistical analysis was conducted
Obj. B
• Assess consumer preference & WTP for intangible attributes
Activity
• National online survey
Status
• Online survey is complete and ready for distribution
Co-PI: Zhifeng Gao
![Page 21: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
100 participants were recruited, 50 with local
information (strawberries produced within 100 mi),
and 50 without this information
Participants rated 3
boxes of strawberries
for color, freshness,
shape and uniformity
Participants tasted
strawberries and
rated flavor & texture
WTP for 3 strawberry cultivars was assessed before and
after tasting
![Page 22: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Take home messages
Only color matters for purchase before tasting/
purchasing strawberries.
After tasting/purchasing, only flavor and texture
matter.
Local information does not matter at all in
consumer choice of berries.
Implications for breeder, producer, and
marketing??
![Page 23: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Presentation
Does Local Label Bias Consumer Taste Bud
and Choice Behavior: Evidence of a
Strawberry Sensory Experiment
(ASHS 2014 Annual Conference)
![Page 24: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
High tunnel cultivar evaluation
in Greensboro, NC. Co-PI: Sanjun Gu
10/08/2013
![Page 25: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
High tunnel in Greensboro, NC collapsed
due to snow accumulation in February
![Page 26: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Field day at Hickory, NC – April 15
![Page 27: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
High tunnel workshop on 3/3/2014
Gu presented on Fall strawberry production
![Page 28: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Stakeholder Assessment of ResearchCo-PI: Mickie Swisher
Growers, extension agents, strawberry breeder, Driscoll’s
3 assessments:
Southern Sustainable Agricultural Working Group conference, Mobile AL
![Page 29: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
High Tunnel Stakeholder Assessment at Citra
![Page 30: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Open-field Stakeholder Assessment
On-station at Citra
On-farm in Plant City
![Page 31: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Extension and Outreach
Short videos of the research will be released to the
UF IFAS website, YouTube, & extension training
venues.
Professional presentations of results to researchers,
extension agents, and growers.
Publication of results in refereed research journals,
conference proceedings and industry publications.
![Page 32: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Strawberry industry leadership outcomes
1. Understand the potential impacts of the factors
assessed in this research on profitability and the
environment.
2. Better able to provide long-term guidance for
research and extension programs about organic
strawberry production.
3. Committed to continued involvement in future
research and outreach programs with an
organic focus.
![Page 33: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Strawberry industry leadership outcomes
4. Assumed active roles in promoting research and
outreach efforts about organic strawberry
production.
5. Identified experimental practices most likely to
reduce costs of production and increase
profitability for producers.
![Page 34: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Economic Sustainability
High tunnel production system that is a potentially
viable option to expand fall organic strawberry
production in the Southeast.
Identified emerging and existing pests that pose
high potential threats to organic strawberry
production systems.
Identified, through grower input, ways to improve
the economic viability of using cover crops to
suppress weeds and nematodes and comply with
this requirement of the National Organic
Standards.
![Page 35: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Social Sustainability
Involvement of Extension faculty members, other local service providers, and growers.
Inclusion of representatives of and professionals who work with limited resource and minority farmers, such as the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists’ Association.
Expansion of the grower community involved in research and extension programs addressing organic strawberry production.
![Page 36: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Environmental Sustainability
Identified potential technologies & management
practices that are economically feasible to
control arthropod pests, weeds and nematodes.
Applicable to organic strawberry systems, but
have potential applicability in conventional
systems as well.
![Page 37: Organic Open-Field and High Tunnel Strawberry Cropping Systems for Long-term Viability in the Southeastern Industry](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052617/547dc31eb4af9fce158b5446/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
Acknowledgments
This project is funded by a grant from the Walmart Foundation and administered by the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Center for Agricultural and Rural Sustainability.