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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

 


Fruit Crop Guides

Guide to Fruit Crop Protection

This 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 more than 100 products. Pesticide safety, calibration tables and pesticide groups round out this comprehensive resource for the commercial grower.

Featured crops are:

  • Strawberries
  • Raspberries
  • Saskatoons
  • Apples
  • Chokecherries
  • Gooseberries
  • Currants
  • Honeysuckle
  • Cherries (sweet and sour)
Pages: 147

 


Guide to Fruit Crop Protection

To be used with the
MAFRI Fruit Guide

Addendums - 2008 and 2007

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 Crop Insect Guide

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

 

Fruit Guide

Order Information

Guide
PFGA Member Price
(Includes tax and shipping)
 		 Non-Member Price
(Includes tax and shipping)
$15 $25
$10 $12
$10 $20

Special purchase price for all three guides
 		 $25.00 $40.00
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.