While I have no direct connection if you google either "strawberry festival" or "strawberry capital of the world" you will most likely come up with my home town. Ten years ago we had over 200 growers in my parish (county to you) but that is down to about 40 growers planting 350 acres today. LSU has a bunch of stuff online that you can read but do not know if any of it will apply to as you gave us no idea of where you are located.
1) Do you have a market. 10 acres is a LOT of strawberries to unload everyday. I do not think you realize how many berries can be produced on 1 acre. At 8000 to 18000 plants per acre depending on row configuration you are talking a lot of plants. 2) Strawberries (at least around here) are grown on black plastic rows with drip irrigation and soil fumigation. This involves machinery to lay down and pick up the plastic every year. 3) Do you plan on growing the plants year round or are you planning to buy new plants each year. Buying new plants as plugs rather than bare root works best for us. 4) Removable row covers are mandatory for us as our plants are grown threw the winter. 5) Growing berries is very labor intensive. With several growers in the area they are able to bring in bus loads of migrants and split them up between the farms. 6) Some have tried pick your own but they never seem to last. Time you figure crop loss from inexperienced pickers, parking area, hours put in to be open when people can come, liability, proximity to populated areas, loss of crop that ripens during weekday when traffic is low, you are better off hiring help. 7) Berries need to be kept cool to shipping. All the growers around here have large coolers to store picked berries.
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