4kgs by UCD Royal Royce plant. UCD Valiant and UCD Moxie are also doing exceptionally well and appear ideally placed to replace Cabrillo and Monterrey. This is encouraging news for the industry. Enthusiasm is also bubbling in some markets for the short-day varieties, UCD Victor and UCD Warrior.

Licenses will be issued for extreme day neutral type nurseries, UCD Finn and UCD Mojo in the coming months. At the same time, we will see test plants of the latest varieties, UCD Surfline, UCD Monarch, UCD Golden Gate, UCD Eclipse and UCD Keystone, recently released in California.

The program is also making great strides in disease resistance and flavor profiling, so if these genetics aren't currently on your radar, they need to be. We and current growers are confident that they will quickly replace older, standard varieties.

“We are grateful for the opportunity to partner with Global Plant Genetics and UC Davis as a sublicensed 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. We are seeing very encouraging performance in our 2023 trials across a wide range of locations. In particular, UCD Moxie has impressed with its early season performance and exceptional flavor, Royal Royce is a little later but looks very strong mid-season along with very firm fruit and Valiant has shown very large fruit size along with "an impressive flavor." Jack Beattie JCLM Agriculture, Australia