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Bramble Opportunities
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Bramble industry in NC
  • -100 acres 1996
  • -150 acres 2002 (approx)
  • -90 blackberries
  • -Arkansas varieties

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Brambles are good for you..
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Terminal market prices
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Market opportunities
  • PYO and pre-pick on farm
  • Restaurants
  • Grocery chains
  • Local markets
  • Processing
  • Specialty markets

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Brambles are Specialty Crops
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Value Added Potential
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Marketable yield (lbs/plant)
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Climatic requirements
  • Raspberries
  • Cool summers, sustained cold winter temperatures
  • Blackberries
  • High temperatures, tolerates fluctuating winter
    temperatures

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Cultivars
  • Select cultivar for local conditions and markets
  • Test new cultivars on limited basis to observe
    performance

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Raspberry varieties by region
  • Mountains and foothills
  • Reveille, Latham, Citadel, Mandarin,
  • Autumn Bliss, Cherokee, Summit, Red Wing,
    Heritage, Ruby, Nordic, Nova, Caroline,
    Josephine, Anne??
  • Piedmont
  • Southland, Dormanred, Mandarin
  • Heritage, Caroline, Josephine, Anne??
  • Coastal Plain
  • Dormanred

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Blackberry varieties by region
  • Mountains and foothills
  • Brazos, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Darrow, Navaho,
  • Apache, Ouachita and Chickasaw???
  • Piedmont and Coastal Plain
  • all of the above and Arapaho, Apache, Black
    Satin, Boysenberry, Chester, Chickasaw, Choctaw,
    Comanche, Hull, Kiowa, Ouachita, Shawnee

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Inputs
  • Plants
  • Irrigation equipment
  • Chemicals
  • Trellis
  • Pruning supplies
  • Picking containers
  • Labor

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Labor INTENSIVE
  • Planting
  • Pest and weed control
  • Pruning and training
  • Harvest

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Viruses!
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Planting stock
  • Plugs (from TC), handles, suckers, root cuttings,
    tips, transplants
  • Good quality,reputable source,disease free,
    true-to-type
  • Certified plants
  • Virus indexed, grown in conditions to limit virus
    infection, superior growth, derived from tissue
    culture plants
  • Place orders early
  • Fall or spring planting

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Nurseries selling brambles
  • http//www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/smfruit-ind
    ex.html
  • http//www.smallfruits.org/nurserycommdatabase.xls
  • http//www.aragriculture.org/commhort/fruits/Black
    berries/licensedprop.asp

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For more information
  • Web sites
  • NCCES http//www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/
  • (blackberry and raspberry HILs)
  • http//web.vaes.vt.edu/VAES/Publications/vaesnumpu
    bs.html
  • AG publications (NCCES)
  • Growing raspberries in North Carolina
  • Blackberry production in North Carolina (out of
    print, but on WWW)

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For more information
  • Grower organizations
  • North American Bramble Growers Association
    (www.nabga.com)
  • Other publications
  • Commercial Bramble Culture, Univ. Georgia
    (www.smallfruits.org)
  • Brambles - Production Management and Marketing
    Bulletin 782-99 Ohio State Univ.
    http//ohioline.osu.edu/b782/index.html
  • Bramble Production Guide
  • NRAES, 152 Riley Robb Hall,
  • Cooperative Extension, Ithaca, NY 14853
  • 607-255-7654

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