Growing better berries: services offered by Peerbolt Crop Management

Ag grower support services

Field Services

Seasonal Scouting/ Field Monitoring Services
Benefits: Scouting is targeted at increasing the efficiency of a grower's crop management system by adding field specific ongoing knowledge of pest levels and crop conditions. With regular field visits by a trained scout, a grower benefits by being able to make more informed decisions on pest control management options based on an objective appraisal of field and pest conditions.

Additional benefits to scouting services include:
• An alert system so that, if the scout reports any conditions that could require quick attention, you will be immediately notified by phone.
• Scouting reports that can be use to track pest levels and treatment effects. These can also be used to verify to public agencies and customers that Integrated Pest Management strategies are being employed.
• Having the assurance that, when you're in the middle of a busy season and might not have time to be checking your fields, someone is keeping an eye on pest levels.
• Increased knowledge of the lifecycles and yearly patterns of the various insects (both good and bad) and fungal diseases that influence the quality and quantity of your production.

Pricing: The cost of this service is based primarily on number of visits, type of crop, size of the fields and location. We have developed a simple-to-use formula to calculate pricing. Give us a call at 503-289-7287 for a general estimate.

Scouting Related Services
Training On-Farm Scouts: We offer training for your employees in small fruit scouting skills.
Scout Support Consulting: We can provide technical support for your on-farm scout by phone, email or on-farm visit.
Pricing: The costs would be hourly for field visits and variable for phone and email support depending on the amount of support needed.

Sampling and analysis
• Soil Sampling & Analysis
• Tissue Sampling & Analysis
• Nematode Sampling & Analysis
• Disease Sampling & Analysis
Call us at 503-289-7287 for an estimate of the full cost.

Hourly consulting
Please call 503-289-7287 for a cost estimate on hourly consulting.

Free grower and industry support services

• Small Fruit Update: A free service available to all growers, industry personnel and public researchers, PCM publishes a seasonal, weekly industry email newsletter that is sponsored by the Oregon, Washington and British Columbia commodity commissions and councils. There is a sign up form on this site for this newsletter. Archives of all past Small Fruit Updates can be seen and printed off in the archive section of this site.
• NWIPM website: In coordination with our private industry sponsors and public agency research and extension institutions, the www.nwipm.info website provides information on pests and diseases in Northwest small fruits, integrated pest management control options and links to regional resources as well as an industry calendar of events and IPM.

Industry technical support services

Please contact us for more detailed information on any of the following aspects of our business.

• Commodity Commission Research Coordination: Tom Peerbolt, PCM's senior consultant, presently contracts with the Washington Red Raspberry Commission and the Oregon Red Raspberry Commission to coordinate their research programs.
• Website Maintenance and Development: PCM presently maintains websites for various small fruit related groups.
• On-Farm Research: A full list of our projects covering many years of experience conducting on-farm research in cooperation with state, federal and private partners is listed on our research page.
• Workshops: We have experience planning and conducting various workshops from smaller processor/grower informational meetings commodity groups up to region wide technical working groups.