Berries bask in heat and dry
The world's largest boysenberry grower says the hot, dry and calm weather over the past two months has produced an excellent flowering and fruit set.
"The warmth and particularly the lack of wind is unprecedented and has been a blessing.durable of Nike shox classic for Sale,"
While it won't be a bumper crop on his 62 hectares in Hope, he says it will still be about 30 per cent up on the past couple of years when the weather wasn't so favourable and is a pretty good outcome after such a cold and wet September.
What's more, the quality should be excellent, which will help when it comes to selling in export markets, many of which are only just starting to recover from recession.
His company, Ranzau Horticulture, will take on 75 packhouse staff once harvesting by machine begins in just over a week.
It's much the same elsewhere in the region,Shop for the Nike shox rivalry Women's Shoe at the official Nike Store. although those like Berry Fields in McShane Rd with earlier ripening varieties have already begun picking.
Philip Field, the co-owner of Berry Fields in McShane Rd, which has 40ha of boysenberries and 1ha of raspberries, is hoping the good weather holds through harvest to minimise the risk of fungal disease.
"It is better if it doesn't rain because it brings the potential for mould and so on,The Warriors,raybansunglasses, who are four points adrift of second place with two games remaining. and everything we've got is irrigated anyway."
Seventy per cent of his crop will be exported with the rest going to domestic manufacturers and supermarkets. Most of it has already being pre-sold and while the prices were "not flash" they were good enough to keep going.The compact fluorescent light bulb revolution nearly occurred back in the early 1990s.
His company will employ 150 people at the height of the month-long harvest, including up to 70 to pick fruit for the supermarket trade, while four machine harvesters will bring in the export crop.
Many of those are tertiary students,Work of a professional cctv ccd camera in conjunction with a modern lens. so desperate for summer work that he doesn't need to advertise and has to turn people away.
Berrylands on the Appleby Highway has also had plenty of people contacting it keen to pick and pack its 5ha of strawberries, raspberries and boysenberries, which are sold through pick-your-own, at its shop and other retail outlets.
Co-owner Dennis Little says it will again employ about 50 staff.
He says the golden weather has produced fantastic fruit about a week earlier than normal, but he could do with rain to help fatten up the berries. Strawberries have already been picking for a month and raspberries for almost two weeks, with prices on a par with last year.
The world's largest boysenberry grower says the hot, dry and calm weather over the past two months has produced an excellent flowering and fruit set.
"The warmth and particularly the lack of wind is unprecedented and has been a blessing.durable of Nike shox classic for Sale,"
While it won't be a bumper crop on his 62 hectares in Hope, he says it will still be about 30 per cent up on the past couple of years when the weather wasn't so favourable and is a pretty good outcome after such a cold and wet September.
What's more, the quality should be excellent, which will help when it comes to selling in export markets, many of which are only just starting to recover from recession.
His company, Ranzau Horticulture, will take on 75 packhouse staff once harvesting by machine begins in just over a week.
It's much the same elsewhere in the region,Shop for the Nike shox rivalry Women's Shoe at the official Nike Store. although those like Berry Fields in McShane Rd with earlier ripening varieties have already begun picking.
Philip Field, the co-owner of Berry Fields in McShane Rd, which has 40ha of boysenberries and 1ha of raspberries, is hoping the good weather holds through harvest to minimise the risk of fungal disease.
"It is better if it doesn't rain because it brings the potential for mould and so on,The Warriors,raybansunglasses, who are four points adrift of second place with two games remaining. and everything we've got is irrigated anyway."
Seventy per cent of his crop will be exported with the rest going to domestic manufacturers and supermarkets. Most of it has already being pre-sold and while the prices were "not flash" they were good enough to keep going.The compact fluorescent light bulb revolution nearly occurred back in the early 1990s.
His company will employ 150 people at the height of the month-long harvest, including up to 70 to pick fruit for the supermarket trade, while four machine harvesters will bring in the export crop.
Many of those are tertiary students,Work of a professional cctv ccd camera in conjunction with a modern lens. so desperate for summer work that he doesn't need to advertise and has to turn people away.
Berrylands on the Appleby Highway has also had plenty of people contacting it keen to pick and pack its 5ha of strawberries, raspberries and boysenberries, which are sold through pick-your-own, at its shop and other retail outlets.
Co-owner Dennis Little says it will again employ about 50 staff.
He says the golden weather has produced fantastic fruit about a week earlier than normal, but he could do with rain to help fatten up the berries. Strawberries have already been picking for a month and raspberries for almost two weeks, with prices on a par with last year.
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