by Lodi Growers | Oct 28, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2024. CONTACT: CLAIRE HEINITZ, PhD, USDA-ARS DAVIS GERMPLASM RESEARCH LEADER. Featured image: Dr. Harold Olmo selection grapes. Collected and photographed on September 13, 2024 by Stephanie Bolton, PhD, during a Lodi Grapevine Rootstock Research...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 21, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2024. BY USDA NRCS. More than $100 million is available for conservation practices on farms, ranches and private non-industrial forestland. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in California runs both the Environmental Quality...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 14, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2024. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. This Fall, the Lodi Winegrape Commission is hosting special VIRUS TESTING DAYS to provide growers, vineyard managers, pest control advisors and consultants assistance with the daunting...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 30, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2024. BY ZINFANDEL ADVOCATES & PRODUCERS (ZAP). It’s nice to have a piece of good news about Zinfandel sales to share. Zinfandel Advocates and Producers (ZAP) was awarded a $256,291 grant in 2019 from the California Department of Food...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 23, 2024 | Blog, Vineyards
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. “Out of sight, out of mind” is an old saying that can apply to grapevine roots. Roots exist and function in the invisible world below ground, where their activities are fundamental to overall vine growth,...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2024. BY RANDY CAPAROSO. Featured image: 2024 Lodi Zinfandel harvest at Giorgi-Ferrari Vineyard, first planted in the 1920s, being packed for shipping to home winemakers across the country by Lodi’s M & R Company. A legacy of longtime...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 9, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2024. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Once every year during harvest, Lodi grape growing history is brought to life in a big and special way while the Lodi Grape Festival Grounds (413 E Lockeford Street, Lodi) hosts a...
by Lodi Growers | Jul 3, 2024 | Blog, Vineyards
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2024. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, GROWER RESEARCH & EDUCATION DIRECTOR, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. Update on December 9, 2024: It’s time to inspect Trees of Heaven for spotted lanternfly egg masses. Learn why and how HERE. In case you...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 19, 2024 | Videos, Presentations, & Handouts
In Lodi, there are native gray ants and pavement ants facilitating the survival and spread of the vine mealybug, which vectors leafroll virus and vitiviruses. By reducing these ant populations in our vineyards, we can reduce the mealybug populations and slow the...
by Lodi Growers | Mar 19, 2024 | Videos, Presentations, & Handouts
The Lodi District Chamber of Commerce‘s Agribusiness Committee, in collaboration with the University of California Cooperative Extension, held the 72nd Annual Lodi Grape Day on Tuesday, February 6th, at Hutchins Street Square. This annual symposium brings together...
by Lodi Growers | Feb 12, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2024. BY LOTTIE DAWSON. Soil health is a constant worry for anyone whose business relies upon crop yields to survive. While we benefit from fantastic growing capabilities across the Lodi area and our grapes are of exceptional quality, there are...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 22, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2024. BY STEPHANIE BOLTON, PhD, LODI WINEGRAPE COMMISSION. You are invited to join us for this year’s Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento from January 23-25, 2024. Unified is presented by the American Society for Enology &...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 15, 2024 | Blog, Vineyards
JANUARY 15, 2024. BY LODI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. The Lodi District Chamber of Commerce’s Agribusiness Committee, in collaboration with the University of California Cooperative Extension, is proud to announce the much anticipated 72nd Annual Lodi Grape Day event,...
by Lodi Growers | Jan 1, 2024 | Blog
MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 2024. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. Continued from GRAPEVINE CANOPY MANAGEMENT REVISITED PART 1 Direct Canopy Management – Configuration Direct canopy management is canopy management by intervention. It takes two forms. The first, which is...
by Lodi Growers | Dec 25, 2023 | Blog
MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2023. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. There was a time when grape growers gave little thought to grapevine foliage beyond keeping it out of the way of machinery and controlling pests and diseases. Accordingly, hedging the apical ends of shoots and...
