TY - JOUR AU - Fennimore, Steven A. AU - Serohijos, Raquel AU - Samtani, Jayesh B. AU - Ajwa, Husein AU - Subbarao, Krishna V. AU - Martin, Frank N. AU - Daugovish, Oleg AU - Legard, Dan AU - Browne, Greg T. AU - Muramoto, Joji AU - Shennan, Carol AU - Klonsky, Karen M. TI - TIF film, substrates and nonfumigant soil disinfestation maintain fruit yields JF - California Agriculture JO - Calif Agr Y1 - 2013/07/01 VL - 67 IS - 3 SP - 139 EP - 146 PB - University of California Agriculture and Nature Resources SN - 0008-0845 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3733/ca.v067n03p139 L3 - 10.3733/ca.v067n03p139 AB - A 5-year project to facilitate the adoption of strawberry production systems that do not use methyl bromide initially focused on fumigant alternatives and resulted in increased use of barrier films that reduce fumigant emissions. The focus shifted in year 3 to evaluating and demonstrating nonfumigant alternatives: soilless production, biofumigation, anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) and disinfestation with steam. In the 2010–2011 strawberry production season, fruit yields on substrates were comparable to fruit yields using conventional methods. Anaerobic soil disinfestation and steam disinfestation also resulted in fruit yields that were comparable to those produced using conventionally fumigated soils. Additional work is in progress to evaluate their efficacy in larger-scale production systems in different strawberry production districts in California.