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This publication was awarded a blue ribbon in the 1993 ASAE Educational Aids Competition.

Blueberries, native to North America, have become increasingly popular with growers and consumers throughout the world. This book is the first comprehensive resource for blueberry growers and the advisers who assist them. Written by 29 experts from across the country, it covers all aspects of blueberry production including site selection and preparation, plant selection, blueberry growth and development, maintenance, pest management, harvesting, and marketing. Topics that other fruit-production guides rarely address, such as nuisance wildlife management, water management, spray technology, and budgeting, are discussed as well. The guide features 168 full-color photos, 27 tables, 24 figures and charts, and a key to problems. (1992)

Blueberries, native to North America, have become increasingly popular with growers and consumers throughout the world. The Highbush Blueberry Production Guide, NRAES-55, now available from the Natural Resouce, Agriculture, and Engineering Service (NRAES), is the first comprehensive resource for new and experienced blueberry growers and for farm advisers who assist them.

The guide covers all aspects of blueberry production, from preparing, planting, and maintaining the site to harvesting, handling, and marketing fruit. It discusses in detail topics that other fruit-production guides rarely address: controlling animal pests, maintaining the water supply, and budgeting.

Authors of the Highbush Blueberry Production Guide, NRAES-55, include 29 researchers, extension workers, and growers from 17 states. Marvin Pritts, professor of fruit and vegetable science at Cornell University, and James Hancock, professor of horticulture at Michigan State University, edited the guide.

The 200-page guide includes 168 color photos, a series of budgeting tables, a diagnostic key, a glossary, lists of supplementary materials, worksheets for determining nutritional needs, and a table of English-to-metric conversion factors which makes the guide useful to growers outside the U.S. It is sold in a 3-ring binder and can be easily updated with notes or with locally available publications or recommendations.

Highbush Blueberry Production Guide, NRAES-55, is available for $48.00 each (plus shipping and handling) from NRAES, Cooperative Extension, PO Box 4557, Ithaca, New York 14852-4557. Quantity discounts are available. Shipping and handling for single copies is $6.00 within the continental United States. New York residents, add sales tax (calculated on both the cost of publications and the shipping and handling charges. Click here for more information). If ordering multiple copies or from outside the continental United States, please contact NRAES for shipping and handling rates. Orders from outside the United States must be prepaid in U.S. funds. Checks should be made payable to NRAES. All major credit cards are accepted. For information about quantity discounts or for a free publications catalog, contact NRAES by phone at (607) 255-7654, by fax at (607) 254-8770, by e-mail at nraes@cornell.edu, or on the web at http://www.nraes.org