Dayneutral Strawberry: Potential for Farm Production Diversification in Southwestern Ontario

Dragan Galic; Elliott Currie; Dusan Milic; Zorica Sredojevic

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Dayneutral Strawberry: Potential for Farm Production Diversification in Southwestern Ontario

Dragan Galic, Elliott Currie, Dusan Milic, Zorica Sredojevic

Published in International Journal of Applied Agricultural Sciences (Volume 5, Issue 2)

Received: 10 January 2019 Accepted: 30 March 2019 Published: 22 April 2019

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Growing consumer demand for year-round supply of fresh strawberries in Ontario justifies cropping of dayneutral strawberry to extend the growing season. Currently they are grown on about 20% of the strawberry acreage in Ontario, and the harvest season has been expanded from six weeks to six months. This study assessed current dayneutral strawberry production technology, calculated cost of production, and evaluated effects of varying sale prices, channels of sale and yields on returns. The data were grower-generated and collected through paper-based surveys of existing dayneutral strawberry growers. The surveys were conducted in 2011 and 2012 in southwestern Ontario. Study results demonstrated that dayneutral strawberry production was labor and resource-intensive, but an economically viable enterprise. The net revenue was channel-of-sale and yield dependent.

Published in	International Journal of Applied Agricultural Sciences (Volume 5, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijaas.20190502.11
Page(s)	32-38
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Production Cost, Dayneutral, Strawberry, Return

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Dragan Galic, Elliott Currie, Dusan Milic, Zorica Sredojevic. (2019). Dayneutral Strawberry: Potential for Farm Production Diversification in Southwestern Ontario. International Journal of Applied Agricultural Sciences, 5(2), 32-38. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijaas.20190502.11

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Dragan Galic, Elliott Currie, Dusan Milic, Zorica Sredojevic. Dayneutral Strawberry: Potential for Farm Production Diversification in Southwestern Ontario. Int J Appl Agric Sci. 2019;5(2):32-38. doi: 10.11648/j.ijaas.20190502.11

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Dragan Galic

Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Elliott Currie

Department of Management, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Dusan Milic

Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
Zorica Sredojevic

Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

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Dragan Galic, Elliott Currie, Dusan Milic, Zorica Sredojevic. Dayneutral Strawberry: Potential for Farm Production Diversification in Southwestern Ontario. Int J Appl Agric Sci. 2019;5(2):32-38. doi: 10.11648/j.ijaas.20190502.11

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