Strawberries and Caneberries

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Dream on. Photo Growing Produce.
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Robots Don't Do Squishy

March 25th, 2018
By Mark P Bolda
Doing some more weekend reading in "Machine Platform Crowd" the popular and well quoted tract on what we are looking at this second phase of the machine age.
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Peristenus digoneutis laying an egg in a plant bug nymph. Scott Bauer USDA/ARS.
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Lygus bugs in the Sunday Sentinel

March 18th, 2018
By Mark P Bolda
An interesting piece of local journalism this morning by Katrina Hunter, who has worked in agriculture on the Central Coast for a number of years. I remember speaking with her on some background for this article. No disputing Lygus bugs in strawberries are a pretty major deal.
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'Sweet King' , one of the most well known strawberries in Japan. Average fruit size of 45 g makes it a contender with our early CA fruit.
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Japanese Olympic Curling Team Caught Up in Familiar Strawberry Political Flap

March 16th, 2018
By Mark P Bolda
The recent strawberry industry earthquake around the Japanese Olympic curling team declaring (on camera no less) that the strawberries served by their South Korean hosts as a snack during the games were "surprisingly delicious" should sound pretty familiar to any California strawberry industry insid...
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