Suppliers and Services for the Raspberry and Blackberry Industry
These members of NARBA offer various products and services. States given indicate the location of the business member, but they generally serve a larger area, depending on the type of business. Website and email links are provided when available. To jump to a specific section, click the link below:
- Nurseries
- Plant & Soil Nutrition
- Pest and Disease Management, Biocontrols, Pollination
- Protected Culture, Substrate Production
- Trellising
- Other Production Services and Suppliers
- Produce Safety/Harvest Management
- Post-Harvest, Packaging & Marketing
- Fruit Buyers/Processors/Marketers
- Breeding, Genetics, & Intellectual Property
- Consultants/Independent Farm Institutes
- Other
See also our comprehensive NARBA Raspberry & Blackberry Nursery List, which lists the varieties and plant types offered by each member nursery. Starred* nurseries participated in the North American Bramble Growers Research Foundation’s Nursery Contribution Program for 2018-2019. We thank them for their support of research.
- Agri-Starts, Johnny Hoblick, Jr., FL website email
- Berries Unlimited, Hare Stuart, AR website email
- Indiana Berry & Plant Co.*, Karla Simmons, IN website email
- Krieger’s Wholesale Nursery, Marilyn/Mark Krieger, MI website email
- Magnolia Gardens Nursery, Rachel Allphin, TX website email
- North American Plants*, Yongjian Chang, OR website email
- Northwest Plant Company*, Julie Enfield, WA website email
- Nourse Farms*, Anne Kowaleck, MA website email
- Onesime Pouliot Agriplant, Jerry Boudreault, QC website email
- Planasa, Mario Loi, Spain website email
- Spooner Farms, Inc., Jeff Spooner, WA website email
- ICL Specialty Fertilizers, multiple reps, regions – Water soluble, control release & foliar fertilizers website email
- Westbridge Agricultural Products, Andy Hudson, CA – Plant nutrients website email
Pest and Disease Management, Biocontrols, Pollination
- Koppert Biological Systems, Kristine Blum, MI – Pollination and biocontrol website email
- Petty Enterprises, Buddy Petty, KY – Pest, weed, and disease control products (FMC dealer) email
- TriEst Ag Group, Cal Lewis, Jodi McPherson, KY- Fumigants and fumigation supplies email website
Protected Culture, Substrate Production
- Cravo Equipment, Benjamin Martin, ON – Retractable roof greenhouses website email
- Legro USA, Dwight Rowe, CA- Growing media website email
- North American Greenhouses, Fernando Lemus, AZ – Greenhouses, net houses, high tunnels website email
- PlantLogic, LLC, Micheal Schmidt, CA – Supplies for substrate production website email
- Priva, Inc, Maarten Hartong, CA – Horticultural automation systems website email
- Quiedan Company, Juan Batista/Tom Ceccarelli, CA – High tunnels, trellis systems, other structures website email
- VRE Systems, Randy Phillips, Ontario – Curtains, walls, and other systems for greenhouses website email
- Best Angle Stakes, Karen Wentzler Woolever, PA – Steel support posts website email
- Trellis Growing Systems*, Richard Barnes, IN – Trellising systems website email
Equipment, Other Production Services and Suppliers
- Agrisource, Jason Worley, GA – Field data collection & analysis website email
- Gearmore, Inc., Robert Emhoff, CA – Farm equipment website email
- Netafim, USA, Doug Davis, CA – Irrigation equipment website email
- TNT Supercenter, Jim Stalvey, GA – Tractors, farm machinery website email
Produce Safety/Harvest Management
Post-Harvest, Packaging & Marketing
- McAirlaid’s, Inc, Rena DeBerry, VA – Manufacturer of absorbent pads for clamshells email
- Ozone Solutions, Kahren Dowcett, IA – Ozone treatment systems for post-harvest, processing equip, etc. website email
- Produce Promotions, Karla Simmons, IN – Signs, banners, etc website email
- Thunderbird Plastics, Ltd, Adam Gross, BC, Canada – Plastic crates website email
Fruit Buyers/Processors/Marketers
(name listed is often the company’s buyer/grower relations contact; if interested in sourcing/buying berries, consult their website for best contact)
- Driscoll’s*, multiple contacts, FL, CA website
- Giumarra International Berry, Alan Abe, CA website email
- Hortifrut Mexico, Marco Arias, Jalisco, MX website email
- Naturipe Farms, Scott Norman, CA; Brian Bocock, MI website email
- North Bay Produce, Michael Girardin, Nick Osmulski, MI website email
- Sun Belle, Ken Hopps, Janice Honigberg, IL website email
- Wish Farms, Jose Saca, FL website email
Consultants/Independent Farm Institutes (also see our list of University/USDA Research Experts)
- Fisher Berry Crop Consulting, Pam Fisher, ON email
- Walker Miller, SC email
- Noble Foundation, Steve Upson, OK website email
- Organic Crop Consulting, Camille Schuelke, IN email
- TSA Consultants, Tim Sobey, UK email
Breeding, Genomics, and Intellectual Property
- Ekland Marketing Company Patrick Ballew, CA – Variety selection and introduction website email
- Meiosis, Ltd, Mark Coxeter, U.K. – Intellectual property rights for soft fruit website email
- Pacific Berry Breeding, Ellen Thompson, CA – Berry breeding email
- Pairwise, Brian Crawford, NC – Genomics website email
- Plant Sciences, Inc, Scott Adams, CA – Berry breeding, ag research website email
- Technology Development Network, LLC, Mark Russell, OR – Product marketing strategies website email
* Contributed to the North American Bramble Growers Research Foundation in 2018-2019