Fruit Crop Guides

Commercial Strawberry Production on the Prairies

This book provides information about how to start and maintain a commercial strawberry planting, what cultivars are available, what equipment is needed and what food safety guidelines have to be implemented. Colour photos show the common diseases and pests that could affect your commercial strawberry crop. An extensive resource section points you to a wealth of information about strawberry production.

Pages: 106

Price: $20.00 (Cheque or money order, payable to the Prairie Fruit Growers Association)

Available from:

MAFRI Crops Knowledge Centre
Box 1149
Carman, Manitoba R0G 0J0
Phone: 204-745-5660

Guide to Fruit Crop Protection 2010

Available May 24, 2010

This guide is an update to the 2004 Fruit Crop Protection Guide.

This comprehensive guide features current pest management recommendations for Manitoba's commercial fruit growers. Herbicide, fungicide/bactericide and insecticide charts by crop are included as well as product labels for over 100 products. Pesticide safety, calibration tables and pesticide groups round out this comprehensive resource for the commercial grower. Featured crops are: strawberries, raspberries, saskatoons, chokecherries, gooseberries, currants, cherries (sweet & sour).

Pages: 103

Fruit Crop Insect Guide

This full-colour, spiral-bound booklet serves as a means to identify the majority of pests that affect small fruit crops including strawberry, raspberry, saskatoon and chokecherry. Some of the pests are specific to the Canadian Prairies but many of the pests included are found across North America. Identification of pest insects is aided by excellent pictures. Relevant text information includes life cycles, host plants, economic thresholds and more.

Pages: 54

Fruit Guide

The Fruit Guide includes information on apples, chokecherries, raspberries, saskatoons, currants, gooseberries, highbush cranberries, pincherries, sea buckthorn, buffaloberries and strawberries.

For each crop there is a crop production and protection section. The crop production section provides cultivar, planting and fertility information for growing the crop. The crop protection section provides a description of disease problems including the symptoms of the disease.

For each crop there is information on cultural control of diseases when possible and a description of the major insect pests and control measures. There is also information on weed control for each crop.

Pages: 260

Order Information

Guide

PFGA Member Price
(Includes tax and shipping)
Non-Member Price
(Includes tax and shipping)

$15 $25

$10 $12

$10 $20

Make cheque payable to Prairie Fruit Growers Association

Available from:

MAFRI Crops Knowledge Centre
Box 1149
Carman, Manitoba R0G 0J0
Phone: 204-745-5660

For further information, contact your GO representative.

Guide	PFGA Member Price (Includes tax and shipping)	Non-Member Price (Includes tax and shipping)
	$15	$25
	$10	$12
	$10	$20
Make cheque payable to Prairie Fruit Growers Association Available from: MAFRI Crops Knowledge Centre Box 1149 Carman, Manitoba R0G 0J0 Phone: 204-745-5660

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