Since 2017, Apical has worked to regenerative commercial viability in Raspberry production to traditional cultivation regions of the Pacific NW.
Pacific NW Raspberries have been a traditional crop grown in many areas of the region for over 50 years commercially. Since the mid 1990’s, the region has seen decline in productivity and genetic viability with an increase in insect and disease pressure.
Due to the factors above competing in a global marketplace, significant amounts of local production of left the area and the economic viability of the crop is considered low by most experts.
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A few progressive growers are committed to retaining the heritage of the crop in the bioregion and reached out to Apical to experiment with a number of heritage and trial varieties in order to maintain production in multiple bioregions.
In spite of international competition, certain growers retained access to markets just needed a local product to fill, and this required high volume & Organic production.
The Apical team began running hundreds of leaf and soil analysis on multiple blocks of Raspberries to ascertain nutritional factors contributing to loss of cultivation and economic viability.
After collecting data for a season, the Apical team began to experiment with a range of growing protocols designed to relieve the following symptoms.
Poor Root Health/Root Disease
After reviewing the evolving plant health and positive correlation to Apical’s quantitive data, many improvements in both nutritional and cultural practice were made.
The results have provided key benefits to the grower including: retained access to markets, additional crop for production, monetary benefits.
Apical’s innovative Crop Science team manages a full-service leaf, soil, and water laboratory with integrated agronomy and organic product support. Sign up for our newsletter and stay in the loop with the latest tech and useful information.
