DiMeo Family Picking NJ Blueberries in Season - DiMeo Blueberry Farms & Blueberry Plants Nursery
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2011
- Call our blueberry farmers at www.DiMeoFarms.com to learn how to grow organic blueberries and how the DiMeo family grows the best ultra-heavy bearing blueberry plants for sale to all types and sizes of blueberry plant gardeners and blueberry growers from all across America. You can reach us directly at (609) 561-5905. The DiMeo's know how to grow big organic blueberries. We can teach you all about planting blueberries plants at your home, growing healthy organic blueberries more productively, pruning blueberries plants at the proper time of year when they are dormant, harvesting blueberries during the summer season and caring for blueberries the right way, with a real expert fourth generation DiMeo blueberry farmer. Various members of the DiMeo family have used many types of blueberry harvesters, so if you are looking for a recommendation on which blueberry picker drops the least blueberries on the ground, let us know and we can tell you all about blueberry harvesting. DiMeo Farms now over 100,000 LIKES on our DiMeo Blueberry Farms and Blueberry Plants Nursery Facebook profile including from happy blueberry plant customers from all across America. This video features one of the several different DiMeo family farms. This is IBF harvesting blueberries with an older blueberry harvester that can be more cost effective, rather than buying a brand new Oxbo blueberry harvester which with inflation can now cost you up to $225,000 or more. If you can even buy one, with current ongoing supply shortages. Call DiMeo Farms now to learn more about growing your own organic blueberries with any of our large blueberry bushes for sale NJ blueberry farmer direct to the public. We greatly appreciate your blueberries plants business.
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You guys have an impressive operation. We are very pleased with the blueberry plants we received. Will be doing business again in the future Thank you.
We greatly appreciate your blueberries plants business. Thank you: www.DiMeoFarms.com
DiMeo Farms is first class operation. Love your blueberry bushes. Referred one of my co-worker today, he was over last weekend and saw our little blueberry patch and fell in love with it.
Thank you Nelson. We appreciate your kind words and your blueberry plants business: www.DiMeoFarms.com
I have ordered from DiMeo several times and am thrilled with their blueberry bushes. They are beautiful, healthy and full. And the old-school telephone customer service is fast and convenient. Make sure to ask for "Lindsay" who is their office manager, and very nice to deal with. When I had a advanced question, she asked one of the farmers, then called quickly called me back with an answer to my question.
We greatly appreciate your business. Thank you. www.DiMeoFarms.com/blueberry-plants
Love, love, love our DiMeo blueberry bushes! Great people.
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Thanks for the memories. I used to work the back of a very similar picking machine back in the late 1970s' early 1980s' in Auburn Washington. We used the machine to pick raspberries and black berries for commercial packing.
Lots of great memories on the blueberry farm. Our DiMeo family has been growing better blueberries for over 100 years. www.DiMeoFarms.com/about
Great family. Love their blueberry plants
Thank you. Your business is greatly appreciated at www.DiMeoFarms.com/about
Great family! Beautiful blueberry bushes. We have been buying from them for years for our garden design business and they always continue to impress us with their amazing product.
We greatly appreciate your business. Thank you: www.DiMeoFarms.com
Great video, thanks for posting. My students really enjoyed seeing how a machine can harvest blueberries. Hope you have many great seasons ahead.
Let your students know that harvesting or picking blueberries with a berry picking machine still has its challenges. First, the blueberry bushes need to be pruned a little differently to accommodate the blueberry picking machine. Especially the base of the blueberry bushes. Second, the mechanical blueberry harvester can drop anywhere from 15 to 20% of the blueberries on the ground. Even today with modern blueberry picking machines such as the Oxbo Blueberry Harvester (which we highly recommend by the way) to be honest, even the Oxbo blueberry picking machine can drop tup to 20% of the blueberries on the ground. This is why the first blueberry picking should be picked by hand. Actually, most blueberry farmers pick the first, second and third blueberry pickings by hand, and then the fourth and the firth blueberry picking is done by the mechanical blueberry harvesters such as the Oxbo blueberry machine that we recommend. Our family blueberry farm appreciates the blueberry plants business and comments from blueberry lovers like yourself. Thank you: www.DiMeoFarms.com
Thanks. Nice job.
Terry
Thank you for your kind words. Best regards. www.DiMeoFarms.com
We love the blueberry bushes you shipped us, thank you so much
If you have any questions, just give us a call (609) 561-5905. We appreciate your business: www.DiMeoFarms.com
That's so cool. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching! www.DiMeoFarms.com
Those blueberries look so sweet I could make a pie from it.
We love blueberry pies, especially with our exceptional tasting blueberries.
just got back on the 3rd from visiting family in jersey. went down to hammonton looking for you guys and batstow village. found both. bought some good berries from a man on the side of the road.
Well next time you are driving through Hammonton make sure you stop back to visit us again. We will have New Jersey blueberries for sale starting around June 1st, plus you can even take home some NJ blueberry bushes that are all ready to fruit this Summer for only $10 each: www.DiMeoFarms.com
Some of our blueberry bush customers prefer a Korvan blueberry harvester but our family has been using BEI blueberry harvesters for their farm for years and have had a great experience with their customer service and support. As for spacing for blueberry pickers you need only have a 9' foot wide row between each blueberry bush and 2.5' feet between each blueberry bush, but if a blueberry grower intends to pick blueberries with the #blueberry picking machine, then they must plant the blueberry field accordingly.
Good people. Great plants.
We greatly appreciate your kind words and business. Thank you. www.DiMeoFarms.com/about
When my family and I worked in the fields, there wasn't no machines then. There was only us and a few other black families and the rest Mexican families. WOW times has changed
You are right. Times are changing. Blueberry picking machines are the way of the future, but first, farmers have to plant, space and prune properly to accommodate blueberry harvester picking. It looks easy, but that's because the row spacing, bush spacing and bush pruning is just right to accommodate the blueberry harvester.
Big giant thanks for posting this video
You're welcome. Now home #gardeners can grow their own BIG giant #blueberries with our special ultra-heavy bearing #blueberry bushes farmer direct: www.DiMeoFarms.com
The DiMeo family has a most impressive webpage but I can't help but remember my experience picking blueberries a number of summers in the Egg Harbor City area in the early 1950's....back when dinosaurs roamed the earth I realize. We used to be paid $0.06/pint and I recall the great joy when I managed to pick 100 pints one day, making the grand sum of $6.00!!! Picking blueberries was the way a lot of kids made spending money back then, something that evidently doesn't happen today. Machines doing the work of people today is a bigger problem than jobs being outsourced although the last blueberries we bought here in Houston came from Peru. It is mid-September and the Jersey blueberry season is over I know but I wonder where the ones sold in Texas came from in June and July? Globalization impacts everyone at all levels....for better and for worse it seems.
Thank you for your kind words. Yes times have sure changed but our family stills grows great tasting NJ #blueberries for all to enjoy. Best regards to you and your family. www.DiMeoFarms.com/about
When I was a kid, I made my walking around money by picking blueberries. 1948-53. Got 5 Cents a pint. Took 13 pints to fill a tray. 12 in the tray and no matter how high they were stacked, the 13th spread over the top! I made about $5 per day...Now? Now kids don't work because there is no work. I never thought a machine could take my place.....because it took awhile to get good at caressing the berries so only the ripe ones would fall in the basket.....this is the last picking....that's easy.....how is it on the first picking?
+PHDracing When we were kids, working for Grandpop DiMeo, we worked our entire Summers in the blueberry fields driving in truck loads of blueberries from the field to packing house. Today, most blueberry pickers earn about $4.50 to pick a 12 pint crate of #blueberries. You are right about the kids not working today. The first picking can be a little hard with the machine, yes lots of green #berries being taken off, but picking them with the #blueberry harvester costs only around .25 cents a berry crate vs. paying blueberry pickers about $4.50 per crate, then you have to add .50 cents for the "crew leader" so with a $5.00 cost per crate vs. .25 cents, even though there is green berries lost with the machine, it still saves money. Thank you for your question. Best Regards: www.DiMeoFarms.com
So yummy😊😋😋😋
And blueberries are so healthy for you too! www.DiMeoFarms.com
Now I know...thanks, nice video.
Thank you. www.DiMeoFarms.com/blueberry-plants
I noticed quite a rough drop of the berries coming down on the chute, prior to getting dumped into the harvest lug. Do you grow for frozen 100% of your crop? Has the processing plant noticed any significant bruising on the berries upon receiving? Would this affect the price paid to you as farmers?
The picking machines are slowly getting better and better, but nothing beats hand-picking.
Those berries look good enough to send to the fresh market. What’s the advantage of sending it to frozen?
Market price of the blueberries always determine if they get packed for fresh market sale or if they get picked and put in 20 lb. boxes and sent to frozen market. Usually the very last picking of the season gets processed and sent to frozen market because when other states come into season (during the very late season) the prices drop so it's not worth it to pack them. Our family's farms always processed them into bulk frozen blueberries because the blueberry market price is not as high as it was at the beginning of the growing season.
Yes, blueberry farmers pick with blueberry picking machines sometimes towards the end of the blueberry picking season because with blueberry harvesters or other #blueberry harvesters they can save the berry farmers quite a bit since you can pick for about .50 cents per crate (12 pint blueberry crate) instead of paying the blueberry pickers $5.00 per crate so it can save quite a bit of money, if you would like us to do any consulting for you, give us a call at (609) 561-5905. Thank you. www.DiMeoFarms.com/about
I'm eating some blueberries right now, and they're tiny and sour! I wish I had your blueberries lol
Your can learn to grow your own organic #blueberries with our "ultra-heavy bearing" Non-GMO, NATURALLY GROWN, Heirloom blueberry bushes that can be shipped direct to your door for less, of you are always welcome to take a ride and pick them up at our blueberry plants nursery. Thank you: www.DiMeoFarms.com
Good afternoon. Аre the berries harvested by the combine suitable for a fresh market? Or is everything being recycled? Does the quality of the berries deteriorate?
How many berries can a worker pick in a day by hands?
Thank you. Sorry for my clumsy English.
Yes, the #blueberries being harvested by the #blueberry picking machine are suitable for fresh #berry market sales. Typically, the first three (3) pickings are done by hand with migrant labor blueberry pickers, and the very last picking is done by machine. In this case, as shown in this video, this was the very last picking, when the harvester was sent in to take off the final picking. But that picking was then sent to the packing house and packed for fresh market consumption. The quality of the #berries does not change if the farmer knows when to pick. The secret is timing and picking the right day, and the right hour of that particular day to harvest. For example, if it's too hot during the day, it's better to pick at night, when it's cooler and the berry is harder vs. picking during the day when the blueberry temperature can be upwards of 86 degrees on a hot summer day. But picking that same berry at night will be a much cooler berry, and therefore be harder and not as soft and perishable at it would be during the day. The average blueberry picker can pick around 40 crates a day. Each crate equals twelve (12) pints. But some really good pickers can pick up to 60 crates a day, but that's working from sunrise to sunset and they have a runner who runs out their picked crates to the truck and they never stop picking. Hope this information helps. Our best regards to you and your family, from: www.DiMeoFarms.com
Whats the name of this machine? And what size is a blueberry crate? Very Cool!!!
This is an older BEI Harvester that still works really well and does a beautiful job for final clean up picking which is the very last picking of the blueberry season. If you can buy one at auction, they are worth the investment and will still do the job nicely and you will save lots of money. But if you are looking to buy the best new blueberry harvester then invest in an Oxbo blueberry picking machine, as they are the best new picking machines, by far. Thank you for your question. Best regards. www.DiMeoFarms.com/about
I could eat that whole crate of blue berries.
You can pick your own #blueberries at our popular u-pick blueberry farm in New Jersey or you can grow your own #organic blueberries at home with our Non-GMO, naturally grown blueberry bushes: www.DiMeoFarms.com
Hello! I have a few questions. Do these need a lot of care? I'm not really home all day long usually. Also, can these bushes take 20 degree weather or colder? Because i live on Long Island and this winter brought temperatures in the single digits!
Yes, our super-cold hardy #blueberry #bushes can easily take the cold in your region and they are very easy to grow with our planting instructions that are included with every order. Just call us (609) 561-5905 and we will give you a fast shipping quote on our $10 blueberry bushes that you will love. Best regards: www.DiMeoFarms.com
can your blue berry bushes survive -40 winters? thank you for the video
Yes, they are very cold hardy because we DO NOT raise them in greenhouses. Many people don't realize this, but the majority of all blueberry plants grown and sold today are grown in greenhouses for big box stores like Home Depot, Walmart, Lowes etc, and the same thing goes for most online sellers of plants, they are grown in greenhouses. Why does this matter? Because greenhouses make for weak plants because they have never actually been outside or been through a real winter before. This is why so many people end up losing a big part of their investment once winter comes along and lots of their plants die. Farmers know this which is why they stay away from greenhouse grown plants. But unfortunately many retail plant buyers and gardeners don't know this fact. Thank you: www.DiMeoFarms.com
Good evening, how much is this blueberry harvester in the USA or in Brazil?
We currently recommend the Oxbo blueberry harvester. Thank you for your question. Best regards. www.DiMeoFarms.com/blueberry-plants
What is the spacing in rows of plants?
The row spacing of blueberry bushes is always determined by what type of machine, tractor or implements you are using for your application. For example, if you are just a backyard blueberry grower, growing them in your garden or for edible landscaping, you can space them only about 9' feet apart which is just enough to get your roto-tiller or lawn mower down the row, but if you are going to start a blueberry farm and you have existing equipment that is not row crop speciality equipment, then you should space your rows a little further apart to get the equipment down the row. When you call us, we will be more than happy to go over all this information with you. Thank you for choosing to grow #blueberries with us: www.DiMeoFarms.com