I pick gallons of strawberries every year...make award-winning jelly out of them. I also wash them because the rabbits, raccoons, cats, and deer have heretofore not heeded my "no peeing on my strawberries" sign. Good Lord.
Are you saying you grow strawberries? There is a difference in raising the plants and going to a berry farm and picking them. I spray repellent around the perimeter of my strawberry beds just to keep the critters OUT.
I too make strawberry jams and jelly, but have never entered them in any contests.