the UC Santa Cruz folks have been working with organic strawberry production
and have published on it.
Center For Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
UC Santa Cruz
1156 High St
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Wk: (408) 459-3964
Fx: (408) 459-2799
The grower involved was Jim Cochran.
Steve Gliessman (gliess@zzyx.UCSC.EDU) was on of the researchers involved.
Lynn Wunderlich wrote an article on Methyl bromide in the Agrarian Advocate
Vol.1 #1, May/June 1993
Don't know what you consider medium to large growers California standards are
a little off from the rest of the nation when it comes to that. Muir Glen
processes and distributes organic tomato products nationwide and their chair
is on the NOSB. You might give them a call for farmer contacts.
There is a Western SARE project LW89-18 using rotations of tomatoes, small
grains, beans, and safflower using organic, low input and conventional
systems. You might give Jill Auburn a call jsauburn@ucdavis.edu
Richard Smith is the UCCE farm advisor on California's Central Coast. He was
on a team that did a study of the economics of diversified organic vegetable
operations and would know the farmers involved. Try rsmith@ucdavis.edu or
the county generic cemonterey@ucdavis.edu
Hope this helps,
Marcie