PowerPoint Presentation - Brambles in North Carolina

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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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