Strawberry Harvest 2020.

In today's video I talk about our strawberry harvest and 2020. The total harvest was impressive for the 1st time growing strawberries. There are many mistakes I made that caused some yield damage but over all I am pretty satisfied with how the crop turned out. In total we picked 4438 pounds of strawberries. With this many strawberries we saw that 6 different farmers market and here in our farm store. The total income off the strawberries for our farm was 28,000 dollars. Not to bad for the first time growing!
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[@sydneykasmar]

Congrats on your first year of strawberries!!!

[@farmerdre1]

Thanks! Hard works pays off

[@wendytiesing5830]

I love your videos and your farm soooooo much! My dad, brother, and I run a small fruit farm in central Wisconsin and I am putting a strawberry patch in this fall - I am so glad to find you on youtube! I love learning from you and thank you so much!!!

[@crobles123able]

Wow! Much respect for you farmers! 🙌🙏

[@farmerdre1]

Thanks!

[@kathyhutto4210]

I just love watching your videos. Glad you had a good strawberry harvest.

[@harppoon23]

I will let you know how my season goes. I enjoyed your video and love learning with ya.

[@farmerdre1]

Please keep me informed! Thanks for Watching

[@timothycalancea462]

Great video keep it up bro 💯. Yee yee 😎

[@farmerdre1]

Thanks for Watching

[@kozhintaha501]

The first year doesn't actually give much product its actually the opposite Strawberries stay up to four years the first is preparing the second year is the most productive year and the years follow At least that's how it is for us

[@travispovey6225]

I’ve heard a LOT of people talk about this but I can find zero data driven research on it. It’s all hearsay or experiential. Do you know where I can find some research?

[@immelting9834]

Great that you got 8k a week . But I'm more curious of what the real profit is after labor cost , operating cost, and plant cost .

[@yinthesky1]

How love your stuff! Impressive on your first year of strawberries!! I will keep watching your videos! Great job!

[@pamquick9037]

I wonder if the trifoliate citrus would work in a greenhouse (heated) high tunnel. I saw some in the greenhouses at Baker Creek last years Spring Harvest festival! I saw lemons and limes but wonder if fig or pomegranate would work since they are easily grown from cuttings. Also, I hope you froze some of those strawberries in 25# food grade tubs for bakery use throughout the year! Great job on your strawberries Farmer Dre and thanks for taking us along!

[@farmerdre1]

I've seen a few trees in greenhouse but nothing too expensive. Thanks for following along this season

[@moiselupescu108]

That works fast

[@farmerdre1]

Yup!

[@FATDADDYSACK]

$6.00 a lb is insane for strawberries. Even at $40 for the 10 lbs flat is insane. Do people have that kind of money to spend in Missouri? I'm a strawberry farmer in Florida and the highest I've sold was $30 for a 12 lb flat and thats the beginning of the season. At the end of the season price do drop in the $7 range for a 12 lb flat. The farmers market we're at are for businesses to buy their produce to sell to their customers, so most of the stuff is in bulks. I've never seen those prices not even in the bigger cities where prices are inflated up. That and also having the same price all season long. Is there any competition at all ? Are there a lot of strawberry farmers in Missouri? I have a lot of questions lol

[@scroogemcduck1462]

Well if you're selling to resellers it makes sense cause they need a cut as well doesn't it

[@vickimorris5600]

I live in southern KY and strawberries saleing for $5 a quart, $10 a gallon$40 for a flat.

[@wesmurphy9725]

There are only 7 or 8 of us strawberry growers around Springfield, MO. Farms between 20,000-50,000 total plants. There are several 2,000-10,000 growers but nothing like the large farms in Florida.

[@djtappromo]

I Want Some, Where you located and when is the season?

[@Mik-mk8us]

I was thinking about putting in 10 k plants. Or so . Maybe next year

[@nathanromain8821]

🇺🇸 Good video 💪🏻

[@farmerdre1]

Thanks for Watching

[@lulube11e111]

This kinda makes me happy about my yield. Here in Croatia I had 5200kg (11.5klbs) on 7700 strawberries. And we had some mistakes. Price is $2.7/kg (>$1/lbs).

[@johnpike9612]

Where exactly in the world are you located at?! How do i find you? Im also in SW missouri and would absolutely love some home grown apples, peaches, strawberries and everything else ive seen you grow.... ive mad several comments but they're all on older video's so i understand the lack of response but its picking season 😢

[@gabrielramirez8245]

Nice great you had a solid year on growing

[@GEOsustainable]

Agree. First have the customers.

[@PlayMyMusicPlaylist]

Yield per acre per year? 8k/ week is clickbait.

[@suzycowan5072]

Dre, If you think about it and by your own reasoning, the second year you would still be producing a half-pound of strawberries per plant and except for labor, water, and fertilizer, all of the rest would be profit. So it seems to me that you should in fact be replacing all of your strawberries every two years, not every year. Now let me throw in my own experience into the mix. I am only a very small property (1.75 acres) with a very small garden, so nothing anything like the scale that you have on your farm. I planted strawberries two years ago (early spring 2020) for the first time and I was very disappointed in my first year because my strawberry bed hardly produced anything at all. But last year (spring and fall 2021), holy cow, our strawberry bed exploded and I'll just about bet I picked probably close to 15-20 pounds of strawberries from a 4x8 ft double row planted bed. and the only thing I did in the spring was to add compost to the bed. I have decided to move the strawberries this year to another location (long 4 ft. shallow trench pots), completely revitalize the exiting bed and plan out a different crop (still undecided). I am also going to plant out another bed of strawberries this fall after watching your strawberry videos and learning what you have learned. I will come back and let you know how it goes at the end of the season (2022), but I was out there yesterday afternoon and under all of the dead leaves we already see signs of new growth. Another thing I am wondering about is that last year we could have developed the pups, but decided not to. So here is my question, if I had instead decided to develop the pups as they grew from the mother plants and on average we counted 3-4 pups per mother plant, could I have then kept my crop going from year to year rather than having to start a whole new crop? This is only our third year with strawberries so obviously, we still have a lot to learn. Thank you for all of the teaching videos Dre, even though we are in different growing zones, I have still gleaned a lot of helpful information from them. Stay safe, stay healthy, and many Blessings to you and your wonderful family. ~SuzyJC-in-Pataskala-Ohio/USA_03.01.2022~

[@travispovey6225]

Why kill the plants? They produce for 5-6yrs. That’s 30k less invested over another 4yrs.

[@ClearWater7.62]

Probably lose quality and yield over time

[@paulmvn5431]

I doubt the decrease will be anywhere close to the cost of the plants and the labor of removing and replanting the crop.

[@Tappedline]

did you burn it or spay it (round up)

[@farmerdre1]

We didnt use RoundUp but we used a burn down herbicide!

[@michaelgriffee145]

Strawberries is a quick cash crop

[@farmerdre1]

Yes it is, thanks for Watching

[@fire7180]

Great video just getting in to growing, what type of fertilizer mix would u recommend

[@johnnylamuelo2102]

What variety of strawberry did you plant? How often did you fertilize. Great job thank you for sharing

[@yeevita]

Why do your strawberry plants look dead? Why not have ones that continuously crop or have a 2nd crop? High value crops seem like a good choice for additional cropping.

[@luemn7691]

He mentioned the first year is the most produtcive.

[@austenmathison7802]

i think this is awesome

[@cristobalpacheco4202]

How many people does that farm support?

[@farmerdre1]

Full and part time, about 15 a season!

[@jiggjohns1028]

Getting me one of those badass hats 30$ worth it.

[@farmerdre1]

There is plenty of the website. Thanks!

[@sennapunjabi1504]

Am i not understanding something? How does 28k gross total translate into 8k a week?

[@notchfox6086]

Very nice sir.

[@dannyosswald9129]

Where do you get your plants from? If you don’t mind sharing.

[@robertalavezzari6970]

Can u explain me what is the reason why u burn the filed after the crop? thanks from Italy

[@ryanfunk3891]

Where do you buy that quantity of strawberry plants and what kind of price do they charge per plant? we are looking into buying a larger property and are putting together our business plan to get a farm loan.

[@timcarr4155]

He said in the video 27 cents per plug

[@farmerdre1]

We use McNitt growers for all of our plants!

[@pondholloworchards]

Everything you do is pretty inspiring for me I like to follow in some of your footsteps do you mind me asking where you got your blueberry bushes from and strawberry plants looking to plant an acre or two here in south Carolina

[@farmerdre1]

The blueberries we got out of Michigan. The company is called Hartmans plant company

[@pondholloworchards]

@@farmerdre1 yeah that's who I am talkin to now. them what kind did you get I'm looking for all highbush

[@pondholloworchards]

@@farmerdre1 is that where you got your strawberries and blackberries from

[@pondholloworchards]

Thanks again keep up the good work and info

[@kathyhutto4210]

I’m from SC. I hope you’re close enough so I can buy some. I’m 30 miles west of Charleston.

[@romanedixon3927]

How much weeks it takes before u harvest

[@dd-ow6pe]

yap! .. i came for the video action

[@k8ers86]

When you open up your strawberries to the public do they mind picking with the plastic? I live in WI and am considering opening a UPick farm but cant decide if I want to use plastic or straw. Do you have any advice?

[@tapsfordays5548]

Plastic is to prevent weeds from coming in the holes straw is usually placed in the middle of the row to keep weeds from growing in the walk path

[@sedemhoggar9677]

where do you buy your bare root strawberry plants from?

[@farmerdre1]

We buy plugs from a guy out of Illinois

[@mj41020]

How many acres did you plant?

[@loganfloyd8054]

Hey man I am having a squirrel issue and was wondering what you do to keep them out of your crops

[@krmcc01]

Buy a squirrel dog.

[@uncommonsense5876]

🍓😎👍

[@krmcc01]

I hope that you are banking some cash because farming doesn't always smell like fresh roses and taste as sweet as a fresh picked strawberry.