Strawberries

4kgs per plant from UCD Royal Royce. UCD Valiant and UCD Moxie are also doing exceptionally well, looking ideally placed to replace Cabrillo and Monterrey. This is encouraging news for the industry.

Excitement is brimming in some marketplaces as well for the short-day varieties, UCD Victor and UCD Warrior.

In the coming months, licences will be issued to nurseries for the extreme day neutral types, UCD Finn and UCD Mojo. At the same time, we will be looking at trial plants of the latest varieties, UCD Surfline, UCD Monarch, UCD Golden Gate, UCD Eclipse and UCD Keystone, recently launched in California.

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The programme is making massive leaps forward in disease resistance and flavour profiling too, so if these genetics are not currently on your radar, you need them to be. We and the current growers are confident they will rapidly replace standard, older varieties.

"We're grateful for the opportunity to partner with Global Plant Genetics and UC Davis as a sub-licensed strawberry propagator in Australia. Our customers have access to UCD Royal Royce, UCD Moxie and UCD Valiant in commercial volumes and UCD Victor in trial quantities from 2024 onwards. We're seeing very encouraging performance across our 2023 trials over a broad range of locations. In particular, UCD Moxie has impressed with early season yield and exceptional flavour, Royal Royce is marginally later but looking very strong into mid-season together with very firm fruit and Valiant has shown very large fruit size together with impressive flavour."

- Jack Beattie JCLM Farming, Australia