What Enterprise is Sustainable for Me?

Raspberry

To evaluate how well this enterprise aligns with your farm's agronomic, marketing, financial and management resources, answer these five questions. Then, calculate your score.

Using a scale from 0 to 100, scores indicate your farm's likely success with an enterprise.

The icons link to resources you can use to answer these questions.

QUESTIONS
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1. Delicate raspberry fruit have a relatively short shelf life. Do you have ready access to a market that would purchase raspberries as they’re ready to harvest?

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2. Raising raspberries requires hand labor for activities such as tipping, thinning and pruning raspberry brambles and picking and handling berries. Do you have sufficient access to labor to carry out this work?

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3. Irrigation is critical for raspberry production because the plants have shallow root systems. Are you willing to invest in an irrigation system to provide a consistent source of water to raspberry plants?

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4. When growing raspberries, good soil drainage and air drainage are important. Preferred planting sites will have deep soil that lacks a hardpan and has a high level of humus. Air drainage prevents crop damage during cool weather. Do you have a planting site that offers both sufficient soil characteristics and air drainage?

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5. High tunnels, which are plastic-covered hoop houses, have enhanced the potential to raise raspberries in Missouri. Are you willing to invest in high tunnel infrastructure and the management effort involved in maintaining a raspberry crop grown under a high tunnel?

Yes
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Your ResultsX
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Respond to the questions for an enterprise. Each question touches on a key factor that affects an enterprise's sustainability on your farm.
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Icons to the side of questions direct to other decision tools that share detailed information about a question's topic.
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After completing all questions for an enterprise, calculate your score. A pop-up page will share your results. Scores closer to 100 suggest the enterprise would align well with your farm. Scores closer to 0 suggest the enterprise would not fit as well, based on your responses to the questions.