by Lodi Growers | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
Now is the time to clean out your barn owl nesting boxes, which depending on where you live are usually empty from Halloween until early December! Much like teenagers, the owls don’t clean out their own nests (which they create from regurgitated pellets –...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
Soil amendments are materials incorporated into the soil in vineyards to improve their soils’ physical, chemical, and biological properties. The three most common amendments are gypsum, compost, and lime. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 19, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
OCTOBER 19. 2017. BY STAN GRANT, VITICULTURIST. Every business has an identity – that is a commonly held impression of its character within its market. For example, those of us involved in the winegrape industry hold certain perceptions about other vineyard...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 12, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
Wine industry leaders have formed a support network to provide immediate assistance and long-term aid to victims of the fires ravaging Northern California and are calling on the national wine community for additional help. Organized by a group of association leaders...
by Lodi Growers | Oct 5, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
Premiumization. It’s a word that prevails today when attempting to describe a main characteristic of the wine business. You won’t find this word in the Merriam-Webster, Cambridge or Oxford Dictionaries, but according to Wiktionary on-line, it’s “The move toward more...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 27, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
How did California become the home of the largest new world wine industry? While the answer is multifaceted, one factor looms large and that is viticultural research. This story begins in 1880, when the state legislature passed a law that charged the University of...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 21, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
One of the newest educational activities on the calendar for the Lodi Winegrape Commission is a monthly Lodi CD11 PCA Network Breakfast Meeting that is held on the first Tuesday morning of each month. You can find the time and location of the meetings at...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
At over $12 billion annually, the research and development (R&D) tax credit is one of the largest tax incentives available to businesses. For wineries and grape growers, the potential tax savings could be significant. Yet many Northern California wineries and...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
In the late 1980’s, as sales of varietal wines began to overtake those of blended wines, Chardonnay emerged from minor importance to displace Chenin blanc and Colombard as the major white wine variety in California. It has since proven to be adaptable to...
by Lodi Growers | Sep 1, 2017 | Blog
To adequately explain why I am so thrilled to be the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Lodi Winegrape Commission, I need to convey a little background. My love affair with Lodi began about 15 years ago as a regular visitor to tasting rooms throughout the...
by Lodi Growers | Aug 25, 2017 | Blog
New Fiscal Year, New Officers and Board Members Join the Lodi Winegrape Commission It’s always an exciting time of the year when new board members join our ranks. Yet, similar to the end of the calendar year, the end of the fiscal year is also bittersweet, with old...
by Lodi Growers | Aug 16, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
Lodi, California winegrape growers have been farming responsibly for generations. An important part of farming responsibly means intentionally taking care of one’s resources. A farmer’s resources include the land, the crop, the ecosystem and...
by Lodi Growers | Jul 24, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
Vineyards are populations of grapevines and associated organisms supported by air, water, and soil resources. As such, they constitute ecosystems or perhaps more precisely, agro-ecosystems. While vineyard ecosystems are artificial, rather than natural, they are...
by Lodi Growers | Jul 10, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
At the end of the growing season, grape leaves are changing color. They turn from green to shades of yellow (white varietals) or red (red varietals) – see the Magnesium deficiency symptoms below (Figures 1 & 2). This is the result of the leaf senescence...
by Lodi Growers | Jul 3, 2017 | Blog, Vineyards
Solving vineyard problems can be a complex and time consuming task, as is deciding how to correct them. The most obvious remedy is sometimes taken to be the most practical while, in reality, it treats the symptoms rather than the cause of the problem. In this...
