Commercial fruit growing guides
Extension fruit and vegetable production educators and specialists work with growers to enhance profitability, add value, and maintain food security through local production and marketing of fruit and vegetable crops in Minnesota.
We work with:
- Commercial vegetable producers.
- Commercial fruit producers.
- The commercial processing industry.
- New immigrant farmers.
In partnership with grower organizations and commodity groups, we conduct research and communicate research-based information to growers throughout Minnesota through our educational programs, field days, grower roundtables, print and web publications, newsletters and radio talks, and one-on-one consultations.
Manuals and growing guides
Hail netting for apple orchards
Commercial blueberry production in Minnesota and Wisconsin
Commercial kiwiberry production in Minnesota
Grapes
- Grape IPM Guide for Minnesota Producers (PDF 2011)
- Tissue and soil nutrient testing for cold-climate grapes
- Video: Education and research to grow the Minnesota wine grape industry (2:29)
Raspberries
Strawberries
Business management, nutrient management, general guides
- Postharvest handling of fruit and vegetable crops in Minnesota
- Minnesota fruit and vegetable growers manual for the beginning grower
- Minnesota high tunnel production manual for commercial growers, 2nd Edition
- Foliar nutrient testing
- Maintaining soil fertility in an organic fruit and vegetable crops system
- Nutrient management for commercial fruit and vegetable crops in Minnesota
- Nutrient cycling and maintaining soil fertility in fruit and vegetable crop systems